Johnston, Thomas D.United States, North Carolina, 35.50069, -80.00032Terrell, James Wharey, 1829-19081879-11-15This is a letter to Robert P. Dick, a U.S. District Court Judge in western North Carolina, from James W. Terrell and Thomas D. Johnston, dated November 15, 1879. The letter contains a report relative to a law suit brought against William H. Thomas and others by the Eastern Cherokees. The report concerns expenditures claimed to have been made by Thomas and his associates while in the employ of the Eastern Cherokees. The suit was filed by the Cherokees in order to gain money and land that Thomas had secured for them but was lost to Thomas' creditors after the Civil War.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/jpegwt189engManuscript held by the Special Collections Library, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, MS2058 William Holland Thomas , box 1, folder 2, document wt189.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--ClaimsEmbezzlementCherokee Indians--Government relationsThomas, William Holland, 1805-1893--Trials, litigation, etc.[Letter] 1879 Nov. 15, Asheville, N[orth] C[arolina to] Judge R[obert] P. Dick / Ja[me]s W. Terrell and Thomas D. Johnston of an imageText