Annual Supply to the Cherokee Nation

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~ War Office, April 6^th 1797. Sir. I request that you will be pleased, agreeably to the enclosed order, to receive from the Store-Keeper, the goods selected for the annual supply to the Cherokee Nation, and have them transported ^{by land} to Knoxville in the State of Tennessee, addressed to David Henley Agent for the War Department. Also the medicines & hospital Stores for the troops in that quarter. James McHenry Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r. [Docket: War Office 6^th April 1797 Annual supplies to the Cherokee Indians to be forwarded — With the Medicine & Hospital Stores —]

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Hodgdon is directed to receive from the storekeeper the goods selected for the annual supply to the Cherokee Nation and the medicine and hospital stores for the troops in that quarter. They should be transported by land to Knoxville, Tennessee and addressed to David Henley, agent of the War Department.