drafts (documents)
Found in 224 Collections and/or Records:
Agreement (unsigned draft) with Agent Montfort Stokes, 1797 - 1897
Agreement (unsigned draft) with Agent Montfort Stokes. Regarding invitations to Jan. 15 council and promising that Treaty (or any other) Party members will not be molested or interrupted. Single folded sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on two pages. Folder 691
Copy of Letter from Chief John Ross to Agent M. Stokes, July 19, 1839
Draft copy of letter from convention, signed by Chief John Ross, George Lowrey, and George Guess, to Agent Stokes. Reporting more hopeful signs of peace and presence of Joan Looney. (Moulton) One sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on recto and verso. Folder 596
Inscription(s)
Inscribed in ink, "Copy of a letter"
Copy of Letter from Chief John Ross to General Matthew Arbuckle, July 20, 1839
Draft copy of letter from Chief John Ross and 27 others to General Matthew Arbuckle. Denying prospect of Civil War and indicating John Lowrey, who is pleased with late emigrant proceedings, will use his influence at the July 22 Old Settler convention which a committee will attend. (Moulton) Single folded sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on four pages. Folder 598
Inscription(s)
Inscribed in ink, "Copy of a letter"
Copy of Letter from Chief John Ross to General Matthew Arbuckle, July 24, 1839
Letter (draft) from Chief John Ross and 22 others in convention to General Matthew Arbuckle. Reporting that a greater part of a committee sent to the Old Settler Council at mouth of Illinois River retired because their lives were threatened by Star, Bell and others. (Moulton) Single folded sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on four pages. Folder 606
Copy of Letter from Chief John Ross to M. Stokes, April 5, 1839
Draft copy of letter from Ross, J. Coodeys, to M. Stokes, U. S. Agent for Cherokees. Protesting places of distribution and quality of rations furnished to late emigrants. (Moulton). One sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on recto and verso. Folder 530
Copy of letter from M. St. Clair Clarke to Thomas Hartley Crawford, July 23, 1840
Copy (certified by T. C. Hindman) of letter from Clarke to Thos. Hartley Crawford, Comm. of Indian Affairs. Asking him to send Clarke's request for papers of Capt. John Page and Agents, relating to subsistence of Cherokees before and after removal, to Maj. Lewis, 2nd Auditor. One sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on recto and verso. Folder 736
Inscription(s)
Inscribed in ink on recto, "Copy"
Draft Copies of Letter from Chief John Ross to Lewis Ross, January 13, 1838
Draft copies of letter from Chief John Ross in Washington City to Brother Lewis Ross as to the Billingsgate Epistle and Seminole Deputation. (Moulton). Single folded sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on four pages. Folder 286
Draft Copy and Final Copy of Letter from Chief John Ross to White Catcher and Twelve Other Cherokee, January 13, 1863
Draft Copy and Photocopy of Letter from Chief John Ross to Secretary of War Edwin M Stanton., May 1, 1865
Draft copy and photocopy of letter from Chief John Ross to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton requesting 'Military Permit' to Lewis Ross to bring goods to Fort Gibson from St. Louis. (Moulton). One sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on recto. Folder 1281
Draft copy (fragment) of Chief John Ross to J. B. Jones letter, December 16, 1865
Draft copy (fragment) of Chief John Ross in Philadelphia to J. B. Jones letter. (See December 15, 1865) (Moulton). One sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on recto and verso. Folder 1294