Transportation of Goods to the Cherokees, Etc.
Document 1798Letter, discusses goods provided for the Cherokees by the Treaty; discusses Indian treaty; mentions an execution in Tennessee.
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Sir,
The enclosed Invoice shews you the contents of the Waggons and by this conveyance to you articles, to be forwarded immediately to Elizabeth Town to Lieutevant Howsee Payton you will please to write a line to him when you send forward the Clothing, and in it enclose the Invoice that he may know whether all the articles come safely to hand.
I am Sir,
Major John Hunt, your most obedient Servant
J. Halgdon.
Sir, Philadelphia 25 Feby 1795.
yesterday two waggoners by the names of Wolf and Brand left this city with their waggons loaded to your address, containing a number of Articles for the interim Treaty with the Cherckee Indians, and also the proper and papers necessary for carrying the law relative to Stamps into full execution in the State of Tennesee. I have furnished each of them with two hundred and twenty five Dollars to enable them to proceed, if from any unforseen circumstances the sums should prove insufficient, you will please to make them a further advance, and it shall be placed to your Credit in my Books.
If there is any public money on hand at the time of their arrival, you will please to commit it to them on their return loaded, as in that way it will be transported for a small expence —
I am Sir,
David Henly, your most Obedient Servant
Knoxville. Samuel Halgdon.
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Letter, discusses goods provided for the Cherokees by the Treaty; discusses Indian treaty; mentions an execution in Tennessee.
Date
02/28/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Repository
Document number
1798022828355
Page start
25
Note
Partially illegible.
Notable persons
David Henley
Samuel Hodgdon
Strausse
Wolfe
Brant
Cherokee Indians
wagoners
Notable locations
Knoxville
Philadelphia
Tennessee
Notable items
advance
credit
execution
treaty
wagons

