- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Letter] 1844 Dec. 13, Washington, Texas [to] W[illia]m H. Thomas / Duff Green of an image
- Creator:
- Green, Duff, 1791-1875
- Publisher:
- Manuscript held by the Special Collections Library, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, MS2058 William Holland Thomas, box 1, folder 2, document wt180.
- Date of Original:
- 1844-12-13
- Subject:
- Cherokee Indians--Treaties
Cherokee Indians--Land tenure
Cherokee Indians--Relocation
Cherokee Indians--Government relations - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, 35.50069, -80.00032
- Medium:
- business letters
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This is a confidential letter from Duff Green to William Holland Thomas, dated December 13, 1844. Green writes in regard to a land acquisition and instructs Thomas to treat with the Eastern Cherokees and Catawbas for their removal. He says that if the Cherokees are not satisfied to live in the area where the Western Cherokees reside, they may be able to settle in Texas or Mexico. Green urges Thomas to have negotiations nearly completed before his return.
Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Libraries in 2001, as part of GALILEO, funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. - Local Identifier:
- wt180
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wt180
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wt180#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wt180/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], MS2058 William Holland Thomas, Special Collections Library, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia
- Extent:
- 3 pages/leaves
- Holding Institution:
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
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confidential
Washington Texas,
13th December 1844
My dear Sir
I am here with every prospect of success. I have a bill now before Congress & have enlisted powerful interests who assure me that there will be no difficulty in gettng [getting] all the land that I may want and fulfillng [fulfilling] our wishes to the utmost. It will be necessary that you should be prepared to make a treaty on the part of your Indians and the Catawbas, and of such others of the several Indian tribes as may become also united with you, I do not expect to reach home before the
first of February, and upon the best reflection I am convinced that our best arrangement is through the Catawbas and north Carolina Indians.
Let the treaty be for their removal to the lands secured to them by the arrangement with the Western Cherokees, with a Clause that should they [added text: be dissatisfied with those lands & ] make an arrangement [deleted text: with the Govt. of Texas ] for another home in Texas or Mexico, they and such of the other persons belonging to any of the Indian tribes who may become associated with them shall retain thier [their] interest in the annuities, lands & school & publice [public] funds of their several tribes and deal in case a majority of any of the Indian tribes on my land or annuities shall desire
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remove and become associated with them, [deleted text: they ] their lands shall be [deleted text: sold ] surveyed and sold, at their request and on their account & the proceeds of such sales paid over to them.
It may & will be best for you to await my return before you close the treaty but you should have full authority to act, and have the negociations progressng [negotiations progressing] so as to close it as soon as I get home.
Great matters which I can not [cannot] fully explain to you now hang upon this arrangement & they cannot be postponed, later than the present session of Congress I repeat -- have all your arrangements made so that the treaty can be concluded when I get home
Your friend
[Signed] Duff Green
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Wm. H Thomas Esq [Esquire]
Genl [General] Duff Green
Texas
Dec 13. / 44 --
In relation to his business in that Country --