Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: These letters all concern Creek affairs, some are addressed to governors of Georgia and Tennessee. Others are to and from a Colonel Henly, Henry Dearborn, and one to "Mr. Madison," and from its contents one would assume it is James Madison, Secretary of State, written in 1801. Benjamin Hawkins (1754 - 1816) was one of the first two U.S. Senators from North Carolina. In 1797 he was appointed agent to all the Indians south of...