Request by President to Purchase Additional Land from Cherokee
Document 1798President Adams official address requesting renewed negotiations for additional land to be occupied by white settlers previously displaced by old negotiated boundary. Assured Cherokees that he had the safety of the Indians in mind and sought to protect them from Zachariah Cox's invasion.
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Type
Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
Description
President Adams official address requesting renewed negotiations for additional land to be occupied by white settlers previously displaced by old negotiated boundary. Assured Cherokees that he had the safety of the Indians in mind and sought to protect them from Zachariah Cox's invasion.
Date
08/27/1798
Author
Sent from
Philadelphia
Collection
Document number
1798082737000
Note
Enclosed in McHenry to US Senate, 01/17/1799.
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Notable persons
John Adams
James McHenry
John Steele
Cherokee
Indian Nation
President
Alfred Moore
George Walton
Zachariah Cox
white
settlers
congress
Dinsmoor
Lieut. Colonel Thomas Butler
children
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Senate
Natchez
boundary line
Indian line
territory
land
Holston
Notable items
treaty of Holston
land claim
property