Thomas Hartley Crawford papers 1827-1862

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Thomas Hartley Crawford papers 1827-1862

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0844

The most important part of the Thomas Hartley Crawford Papers relate to Crawford's work on a presidential commission investigating land fraud in connection with the 1832 treaty with the Creek Indians. There are also legal opinions, reports, financial records and correspondence with members of Congress which reflect his work as Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1836-1845, and as a judge in Washington, D.C., 1845-1861. Among his correspondents are Dixon H. Lewis, C. C. Clay, William Mitchell and J. C. Ten Eyck.

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Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Crawford, Thomas Hartley, 1786-1863

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Thomas H. Crawford, a lawyer from Pennsylvania, served as representative to Congress from 1829-1833. He then served as a member of Pennsylvania State House of Representatives from 1833-1834. In 1836, he was appointed to investigate suspected fraud in the sale of Creek lands in Alabama. From 1838 to 1845 he served as Commissioner of Indian Affairs and subsequently as judge of the criminal court in the District of Columbia, 1845-1861. He died in 1863. From the description of Thomas Har...