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[Letter] 1839 June 22, Washington City, D.C. [to] E. Hyatt, McBurney [? and] Co. / W[illia]m H. Thomas

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Type: Business letters
Creator: Thomas, William Holland, 1805-1893
Title: [Letter] 1839 June 22, Washington City, D.C. [to] E. Hyatt, McBurney [? and] Co. / W[illia]m H. Thomas
Date: 1839 June 22
Description: This document is a letter dated June 22, 1839 to E. Hyatt, McBurney(?) and Co. from William Holland Thomas stating that he has been delayed while trying to procure a settlement of a claim due him as contractor for the troops stationed in the Cherokee Nation and that he has a number of claims to settle for individual Cherokees under the treaty of 1835.

Document ID: wt011.

Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Libraries in 2001, as part of GALILEO, funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Subjects: Cherokee Indians--Claims | Cherokee Indians--Treaties | Southern States
Contributors: Hoskins Library | University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Libraries | Southeastern Native American Documents Collection (GALILEO (Georgia statewide project)) GAGAL | Digital Library of Georgia
Online Publisher: Athens, Ga. : Digital Library of Georgia, 2001
Original Material: 1 page/leaf | Manuscript held by the Special Collections Library, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, MS2058 William Holland Thomas, box 1, folder 1, document wt011.
Rights and Usage: This work is the property of the Special Collections Library, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN. It may be used freely by individuals for research, teaching, and personal use as long as this statement of availability is included in the text.

Cite as: [title of item], MS2058 William Holland Thomas, Special Collections Library, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia

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Related Institutions: Digital Library of Georgia
Hargrett Library
Museum of the Cherokee Indian
Tennessee State Library and Archives
Tennessee State Museum
Frank H. McClung Museum (Knoxville, Tenn.)
Hoskins Library
LaFayette-Walker County Library
Collection Information: Southeastern native American documents, 1730-1842