Creek Indians -- Government relations -- Sources
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Benjamin Hawkins letters
Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-368
Abstract
North Carolina planter, U.S. senator, and Indian agent. Letters concerning southern Indian affairs, 1796-1812, from Hawkins to Col. David Henley, U.S. War Dept. agent based in Knoxville; James Jackson, governor of Georgia, 1798-1801; and Harry Toulmin, a prominent Mobile resident and later federal judge in the Mississippi Territory. Subjects include setting the boundary line between the U.S. and the Creek Nation along the Clinch River and settlers on Indian lands there (1797); horse thefts...
Dates:
1797-1812
David Brydie Mitchell papers
Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-606
Abstract
Incoming and outgoing correspondence (including 42 letters from Georgia politician William H. Crawford, 1808-1822), mainly covering Mitchell’s two tenures as Georgia governor and during his appointment by President Madison as Creek Indian agent, 1817-1821. Content concerns national and local politics, foreign affairs, military matters and the approaching War of 1812, the Yazoo land fraud, Florida history, attitudes and actions towards African-Americans and Indians, and Mitchell’s attempts to...
Dates:
1777-1843; Majority of material found within 1805-1829