Copy of letter from Secretary of War J. H. Eaton to Colonel Ward, August 2, 1830
Description
Copy of letter from Secretary of War J. H. Eaton to Colonel Ward transmitting a copy of his July 29th letter to Colonel Montgomery, Cherokee Agent, setting forth the President's views on Indian removal. Five folded sheets of paper with handwritten text in ink on 19 pages. Folder 40
Inscribed in ink on recto, "Copy"
Dates
- August 2, 1830
Creator
- Eaton, J. H. (Artist, Person)
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Access Restrictions
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Extent
From the Collection: 11 Linear Feet
Medium
ink on paper
Dimensions
Overall: 10 × 16 in. (25.4 × 40.6 cm) Folded: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
- Alabama
- American
- Andrew Jackson
- Bison (genus) -- bisons (bovines) -- bison -- buffaloes -- buffalo
- Cherokee (culture or style) -- Keetoowah
- Cherokee Agent
- Cherokee Nation -- tsalagi ayeli -- tsalagiyi
- Colonel Ward
- Council House
- Creek
- Creek Nation
- Ethiopian (culture or style)
- Franklin (county)
- Georgia
- God
- Hugh Montgomery
- Indian Agent
- Indian Removal
- J. H. Eaton
- John Ross Papers
- Kentucky
- Lake Erie -- Lake Okswego
- Letter
- Manuscripts
- Mississippi River
- Muscogee -- Mvsoke -- Creek (culture or style) -- Muskogee
- Native American (culture or style) -- American Indian -- Indigenous American
- New York
- Ohio
- Panthera pardus (species) -- leopards -- leopard -- panthers
- Red Jacket
- Red Man
- Savage
- Secretary of War
- Seneca (culture or style)
- United States
- agriculture (discipline)
- archives -- archive
- aristocracy
- chieftains -- chieftain -- chiefs (tribal leader)
- churches (buildings) -- church
- citizens -- citizen
- civilized
- congress
- constitutions -- constitution
- copies (documents) -- copy (document)
- corn (seed)
- corporal punishment
- creeks (bodies of water) -- creek
- crime (social issue)
- education -- educational
- fee simple
- firearms -- firearm
- freedom -- liberty
- illiterate
- letters (correspondence) -- letter
- missionaries -- missionary
- murders -- murder
- pre-Removal
- preachers -- preacher
- presidents -- president
- property (legal concept)
- religion -- religious
- republics -- republic
- schools -- school
- science -- sciences -- scientific
- skin -- skins
- slavery -- slave keeping
- sovereignty -- sovereignity
- taxes -- tax
- treaties -- treaty
- tribes -- tribe -- tribal societies
- unions -- union
- white man
- white people
- wild turkey
- woman -- women
Repository Details
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