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Tennessee

 Subject
Subject Source: Gilcrease Places

Found in 45 Collections and/or Records:

Spoliation Claim, May 2, 1842

 Item — Folder 860: [Barcode: 187.860]
Identifier: 4026.1026
Description

Spoliation claim - Tenn. Jinny Dragging Canoe; sworn before Carter. Single folded sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on two pages. Folder 860

Dates: May 2, 1842

The home of John Ross near Ross's Landing, now Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1850 - 1900

 Item — Folder Cherokee.27: [Barcode: 3.Cherokee.27]
Identifier: 4326.3268a-b
Description

2 copies of this photograph exist in the Gilcrease Photograph Collection Folder 27



Inscription(s)

Inscribed, "The home of John Ross near Ross's Landing, now Chattanooga, Tennessee, from The Great South, by Edward King." under image on recto

Dates: 1850 - 1900

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

Transcript of Suit Theodore P. Johnston v. John Ross in Tennessee, June 15, 1842

 Item — Folder 870: [Barcode: 187.870]
Identifier: 4026.1035-4
Description

Transcript of suit Theodore P. Johnston v, John Ross in Tennessee. Folded sheets with handwritten text in ink on ten pages. Folder 870

Dates: June 15, 1842

Two letters from Joel Roberts Poinsett to the Cherokee Delegation with envelope, 1797 - 1897

 Item — Folder 349: [Barcode: 187.349]
Identifier: 4026.572
Description

Envelope for letter from Joel R. Poinsett, Secretary of War, to delegation in Washington City. Single folded sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on two sides. Folder 349

Dates: 1797 - 1897