migration
Subject
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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Letter from George Lowry, Going Snake, and Others to General Winfield Scott, June 9, 1838
Item — Folder 355: [Barcode: 187.355]
Identifier: 4026.580-.1
Description
Petition to General Winfield Scott from George Lowrey, Going Snake, and others, warning of sickness and death in sickly season and asking for delay in migration. There is also a small note dated June 11, 1838 from George Lowry, concerning the bearer of two petitions. Bound document. Two folded sheets with handwritten text in ink on 4 of 8 pages. Folder 355
Dates:
June 9, 1838
Map Showing Routes of Emigrating Indians, 1830 - 1840
Item — Drawer MC-1, Folder: Map 118
Identifier: 39.567
Description
This map is a depiction of the routes of emigrating Indigenous tribes, specifically the Creek, Choctaw, Cherokee, Chickasaw and Seminole nations. Inscribed in pencil, "Map. 118" in bottom right on verso. Scope and contents note on Cartobibliography Form: "Significant Characteristics: shows emigration routes of the Cherokees, Creeks, Seminoles, Chickasaws and Choctaws". A blueline print was made in 1932.From Map Card:Grant Foreman (1869-1953) Historian & Map...
Dates:
Publication: 1830 - 1840
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