Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: These are miscellaneous, mostly important, papers relating to Creek tribal affairs. In 1782 Governor Martin held a conference at Savannah with the Tallahassee King and the Headmen and Warriors of the Upper and Lower Creek Nations. In addition to three documents concerning this conference, there are "talks" by John Crutchfield, who could not attend the original "talk," sent to the governor by George Walton, saying that the "Indians are illy used by a number of disorderly persons." In 1798 there is an order to bring James Ford, an Army Captain, to trial for trading with the Indians without a permit. Some of the papers deal with murder and horse stealing, and there are requests for troops and orders concerning them. One item dated 1837 is a request for guards to be sent to New Orleans because of an epidemic there. Interesting items: A very handsome document is the appointment of David B. Mitchell in 1817 as commissioner to make a treaty with the Creeks, signed by James Monroe, President of the United States. In 1893 Dr. Marion Elisha Tarvin sketches the history of the Creeks from 1519 to 1893, giving much information about the McGillivray family. There are three manuscript copies of Creek Laws dated in 1849, 1865 and 1873. A note on the first page of the 1849 manuscript reads: "The Laws of the Creek Nation Translated into its native tongue by Daniel B. Aspberry but not yet revised . . ."

The Muscogee (Creek) Papers consist of a collection of materials such as personal letters, military letters, laws and bylaws, government correspondence, land claims, speeches, petitions, depositions, government appointment records, resolutions, journal articles, census records, records books, and other manuscript documents ranging from 1782-1966. Letters include correspondence from James Seagrove, Major General Thomas Pinckney, Chief Roly Canard Elenor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, and others. Some notable documents are an appointment signed by President James Monroe (1817), a Land Lottery with list of names for Montgomery County (1832), Collections of the Georgia Historical Society Volume III- Part 1, written by Benjamin Hawkins, which gives an incredibly detailed description of Muscogee (Creek) Nation and its inhabitants and intricacies (1848), a notebook of Creek Laws in the Creek language (1849), a bound volume of Creek Laws (1865), a Creek Census Roll of Tulmochessee Town (1868), a typescript of Chief Samuel Checote’s record book (1860-1874), and a typescript of History of the Muscogee's or Creek Indians (1518-1893).