[Letter] 1839 June 10, Washington City, [D.C. to] John F. Schermerhorn, Utica, N[ew] Y[ork] / W[illia]m H. Thomas Thomas, William Holland, 1805-1893 Cherokee Indians--Relocation Cherokee Indians--Government relations Cherokee Indians--Claims Schermerhorn, J.F. (John Freeman), 1786-1851 United States. Office of Indian Affairs This document is a letter dated June 10, 1839 to John F. Schermerhorn from William H. Thomas. Thomas informs Schermerhorn that the President will most likely need to appoint another commissioner to examine the Cherokee claims under the treaty of 1835 and asks Schermerhorn to consider accepting the appointment. Thomas also writes that he believes he will be able to procure subsistence and removal allowance for the Oconaluftee Cherokees at some point in the future. Document ID: wt008. 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. Athens, Ga. : Digital Library of Georgia Hoskins Library University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Libraries Southeastern Native American Documents Collection (GALILEO (Georgia statewide project)) GAGAL Digital Library of Georgia 2001 Business letters http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/zlna/id:wt008 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 wt008. Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: AT&T DjVu browser plug-in needed to view images of documents. 1839-06-10 North Carolina 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