Description

Confederate States Commissioner Albert Pike concluded this eighty-seven page treaty between the Confederate States, Choctaw Nation, and Chickasaw Nation at North Fork Town in Creek Nation West. Although the treaty was concluded in Creek Nation West, there is no evidence in the document to indicate the participation of Creek Nation. Included in the document are signatures for the Confederate States, Choctaw Nation, and Chickasaw Nation. Folder 10

Description

Certified Copy of the Cherokee-Creek Treaty regarding boundary. Top left corner folded. Single folded sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on four pages. Folder 12

Inscription(s)

Inscribed in ink, "Copy of the Creek + Cherokee Treaty"

Collection Overview The Cherokee Papers consist of a collection of materials such as personal letters and legal documents ranging from before, during, and after removal, including various correspondences from Colonel Return J. Meigs, Senator James Harlan, President Ulysses S. Grant, Colonel Stand Watie, and others. There are several documents pertaining to Cherokee land rights and negotiations, including the Old Settlers’ group with the Old Settlers' Council Proceedings (1838-1865) and a list of 119 Old...

Guidebook to Manuscripts From "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: These are various papers regarding money due the Indians from sale of lands under the terms of the Dancing Rabbit Creek Treaty. The "land warrants" are signed by the Indians with their marks. Some documents relating to George Durant as Commissioner of the Court of Claims and papers regarding this office, mostly in the 1870's, and an Act to improve the procedure of the Probate Court signed by Allen Wright are also included in the collection. There is one...

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Ten of these items are letters, two of them addressed to his wife, Rachel. Other letters are mostly concerned with military matters, one addressed to James Calhoun who was at the time Secretary of War. Jackson writes to Governor William Schley of Georgia informing him that "Jessup has not delivered the Creek prisoners to the State of Georgia." Also included are a number of badly faded photostats. Interesting item: In a letter...

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: These records are divided between Confederate Paper an Union Papers. Confederate papers include items regarding the release of Tyre L. Harris, and underage conscriptee, 9 tax receipts from Charles Powell, 15 Registered Bonds of the Confederate States of America, the signature papers of a Treaty between the Confederate States and the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nation, and a newspaper article, dated June 9, 1864 regarding the Sloop...

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: The Eastern Band of Cherokees were those who, under the leadership of John Ross, did not subscribe to the treaty of New Echota (1835) and had to be removed by force to the Western lands. However, there had been emigration to the West as early as 1810 by groups who wished to leave Georgia and the term "Western Cherokees" was applied to this group as well as to later emigrants. The papers in the Gilcrease files labeled "Eastern...

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: A treaty of several tribes of Indians, primarily Seneca, Wyandotte, Delaware and Shawnee. Concluded at St Mary's, Ohio, in 1818, signed by John C. Calhoun in 1826. Accompanying the treaty is a large plat showing the allotment of lands, signed by Josiah Meigs.[Filed in Flat Storage - Cabinet B, Drawer 5, Folder 4]. Also contains an unsigned typescript entitled "Henry Turkeyfoot" comprising a two page biography of the Seneca...

Collection Overview

Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Completely handwritten, this is a treaty, written in Spanish, between the Chickasaws, Choctaws, and Governor Lemos of "the Place and District of Natchez." It contains many signatures, the majority "by his mark."

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: A photocopy of Special Order Number 15 by Maj. Gen. Hindman, Confederate Army, and Proclamation by Stand Watie promising protection to Cherokees who return to their homes, a letter from Stand Watie, at Camp McIntosh to Lt Farnsworth authorizing him to issue clothing to a company to be raised by Capt. Gorden, and Treaty stipulations signed by Lt. Col. A. C. Mathews and Wm. Hance for U.S. and Brig. Gen. Stand Watie, Principal...