Letter City of Washington, to Gov. Wm. P. Duvall, Tallahassee, Florida, [ca. 1829]

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Letter City of Washington, to Gov. Wm. P. Duvall, Tallahassee, Florida, [ca. 1829]

1829

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Concerns the Secretary of War's protest of a draft drawn upon him by Governor Duval of Florida for the outfitting and expense of the Indian boys whom he had authorized to be sent for their education to the Choctaw Academy. He says that Major Eaton had forgotten the circumstances and that the Indian Chiefs may now be obliged to send their boys to a school for education of the whites in Kentucky.

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