Letter from Thos. Ryan, Acting Commissioner, to Ozie T. Hodges, Atoka. Concerning Cattle removed by Indian Police from Tribal land not rented by him from Tahlequah. One sheet of paper with typed text in ink on recto. Folder 1361.

Longhand text of Article from National Intelligencer citing Commissioners action barring Chief John Ross. Single folded sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on three pages. Folder 1287

Unaddressed and unsigned memo of allowances to be paid to Mr. Schermerhorn, Commissioner for Treaty, for attendance at council in New Echota. One sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on recto. Folder 142

Minutes of Executive Council (Chief John Ross, James Brown, William Potter Ross, Daniel Colston, and Joseph Vann). Reviewed and approved Proclamation and correspondence with Lieutenant Colonel J. R. Kannady, Brigadier General (No Suggestions), Confederate Commissioner of Indian Affairs David Hubbard, and Albert Pike. Single folded sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on four pages. Folder 1109

Names from Hog's Party from Valley River, N.C. not receiving valuation money from commissioners of U. S. Single folded sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on two pages. Folder 481

Note from Chief John Ross to General John Tipton, Senator, handed to Colonel Standifer by Lewis Ross and delivered to Tipton, protesting Schermerhorn Treaty and indicating readiness to meet with new commissioners, if appointed by the President. (Moulton) Two folded sheets of paper with handwritten text in ink. Folder 185

Permit granted to W. G. Robinson, A Cherokee citizen, to employ Blankenship and Reynolds, United States citizens, as farmers for the term of two months. Permit signed by H. J. Vann, Clerk of the Canadian District in the Cherokee Nation. Folder 483

Protest signed be Lewis Downing and 10 others at Fort Smith against action of United States Commissioners on September 15, 1865 in barring Chief John Ross from the deliberations. Single folded sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on four pages. Folder 1286

Report by Commissioner Thomas Hartley Crawford to Secretary of War Joel Roberts Poinsett of his examination of the Cherokee removal claim and recommending its disallowance. Sixteen folded sheets of paper with handwritten text in ink on thirty two pages. Folder 738

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