Tennessee River
Subject
Subject Source: Gilcrease Dci Places
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Power of Attorney from Susannah and Samuel Riley to Chief John Ross, March 27, 1845
Item — Folder 964: [Barcode: 187.964]
Identifier: 4026.1124-.1
Description
Power of Attorney from Susannah and Samuel Riley to Ross. To pursue John Riley claim. (March 8 and March 24, 1845). Single folded sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on two pages. Folder 964
Dates:
March 27, 1845
The Removal of the Cherokee, circa 1927
Item — Box 1, Folder: 65
Identifier: 4027.5291
Description
Typescript of an essay titled "The Removal of the Cherokee" by John Madden. Describes how the comissioner J.F. Schermerhorn arranged the Treaty of 1835 in absence of Cherokee officers. By this treaty, the Cherokee Nation ceded to the U.S. all territory east of the Mississippi River. Includes history of the removal from June 1838 to March 1839. Folder 65
Dates:
circa 1927