Return John Meigs journal, 1835 [microfilm manuscript].

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Return John Meigs journal, 1835 [microfilm manuscript].

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Journal of Return John Meigs, 5 June-12 October 1835, kept while he was secretary to the commissioners authorized to negotiate with the Eastern Cherokees in north Georgia and Tennessee. The journal records Meigs's itinerary through western North Carolina, north Georgia, and Tennessee, and indicates places where he lodged, meals eaten, church attendence, scenery, persons met, and business activities. The commissioners included J. F. Schermerhorn and William Carroll. They are mentioned in the journal, along with Elbert Herring and Cherokee chiefs John Ridge and John Ross. In addition to the journal entries, the volume includes Meigs's travel accounts and copies of his own correspondence and that of others.

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Schermerhorn, J. F. (John Freeman), 1786-1851

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Schermerhorn and Samuel J. Mills were commissioned by the Society in 1812 to collect information about Indian tribes "west of the Alleghany Mountains and Mississippi River." From the description of Report : concerning Indians in the western United States : manuscript, [1813] (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612861240 ...

Herring, E. (Elbert), 1777-1876

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Ross, John, 1790-1866

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Cherokee Chief. From the description of Letter, biography, and publication, 1830-1834. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367389224 Cherokee chief. During the 1813-1814 Creek War, Ross served as adjutant of Gideon Morgan's Cherokee regiment, which fought with Andrew Jackson's militia and regulars against the Creeks at Horseshoe Bend and elsewhere. In a long public career, Ross served on the Cherokee national council (1817-1829, president 1819-1829); as c...

Carroll, William, 1788-1844

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Governor of Tennessee and army officer. From the description of William Carroll correspondence, 1815. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452688 ...

Ridge, John, 1803-1839

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Cherokee Treaty Party leader and proponent of Cherokee emigration to the West. From the description of Letters, 1821-[ca. 1835]. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 39654507 John Ridge, the son of Major Ridge attended the mission schools at Spring-place Georgia, and Brainerd Mission in Tennessee. Because of his unusual intelligence he was sent to the Foreign Mission School at Cornwall, Connecticut in 1819. He was very handsome and distinguished in appearance but suffered...

Meigs, Return John, 1782-1851

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Return John Meigs was the son of Major John Meigs of Connecticut and Elizabeth (Henshaw) Meigs. He should not be confused with Return J. Meigs (1740-1823), Revolutionary officer and Indian agent; with Return J. Meigs (1764-1824), U.S. senator and governor of Ohio; or with Return J. Miegs (1801-1891), Tennessee lawyer and state librarian. From the description of Return John Meigs journal, 1835 [microfilm manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 26380279 Return John Meigs was the son ...