[Letter] 1839 Dec. 23, Washington City, D.C. [to] T. Hartley Crawford, Commissioner of I[ndian] A[ffairs] / W[illia]m H. Thomas of an image Thomas, William Holland, 1805-1893 Cherokee Indians--Claims Cherokee Indians--Government relations Cherokee Indians--Relocation United States. Office of Indian Affairs This is a letter, dated December 23, 1839, from William Holland Thomas to T. Hartley Crawford, Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Thomas, as legal representative for John Welch, submits a request for the Commissioner's consideration. Welch claims that he lost 2990.00 dollars worth of property as a result of the removal of the Cherokees to the West in 1838. Document ID: wt140. 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 2001 Business letters Claims Text http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/zlna/id:wt140 1 page/leaf text/html image/jpeg image/x-djvu Manuscript held by the Special Collections Library, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, MS2058 William Holland Thomas , box 1, folder 1, document wt140. Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: AT&T DjVu browser plug-in needed to view images of documents. 1839-12-23 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