United States, North Carolina, 35.50069, -80.000321850-04-15This is a legal document, dated April 15, 1850, wherein the undersigned grant power of attorney to William H. Thomas. Eastern Cherokees, including several members of the Raper family, appoint William Holland Thomas to prosecute their claims against the United States and guarantee him ten percent for compensation. The document also contains two affidavits confirming the legitimacy of the power of attorney.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.text/htmlimage/jpegwt184engManuscript held by the Special Collections Library, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, MS2058 William Holland Thomas , box 1, folder 2, document wt184.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: AT&T DjVu browser plug-in needed to view images of documents.http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/Cherokee Indians--ClaimsCherokee Indians--Government relations[Power of attorney] 1850 Apr. 15 given to W[illiam] H. Thomas / Stacy Blythe ... [et al.] :a machine-readable transcription of an imageText