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Language:English
Date:June 8, 1785; May 20, 1826; Undated;
Contributor:Elbert, Samuel, 1740-1788 | Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849 | Sadiga, Sally
Subject:Georgia--History | Government relations | Boundaries | Linguistics | Land claims | Alabama--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Legal documents | Vocabularies
Extent:3 items
Description: 1) Letter from Elbert to Major General Lachlan McIntosh regarding meeting to ascertain boundary between Creek Indians and Georgia. 2) Letter from Gallatin to Peter S. Du Ponceau sending transcribed vocabularies of Yuchi, Natchez, and Muscogee; also sending a Sioux grammar to Colonel Thomas L. McKenny, Office of Indian Affairs. 3) Legal brief by the plaintiff's attorney in a Creek Indian land dispute before the Supreme Court of Alabama-Sally Sadiga vs. Richard DeMarcus and Peter Hufman.
Collection:Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (Mss.Ms.Coll.200)
Language:English
Date:August 1, 1795
Contributor:Bayard, Samuel, 1767-1840 | Bradford, William, 1755-1795
Subject:Florida--History | Georgia--History | Land claims
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:3 pages
Description: One letter from William Bradford, dated August 1, 1795, asking Samuel Bayard to take the earliest opportunity of procuring from the Plantation Office papers relating to the boundaries of Georgia and West Florida, and Indian claims. Bayard wrote "His last letter to me" on the reverse of the letter.
Collection:Samuel Bayard Papers (Mss.SMs.Coll.6)