Dr. Marcus Palmer, Greenwich, Connecticut : missionary to the Cherokees / transcribed and edited by Jeffrey Bingham Mead, the Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich, Connecticut.

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Dr. Marcus Palmer, Greenwich, Connecticut : missionary to the Cherokees / transcribed and edited by Jeffrey Bingham Mead, the Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich, Connecticut.

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Notes on reports in the "Missionary herald" between 1828 and 1841 from Marcus Palmer, missionary to the Cherokees in Arkansas territory, dealing with the establishment of schools, activities of the Cherokee Temperance Society, revivals and the reaction of the community to the news that they would be forced to move west.

12 p. ; 28 x 22 cm.

Connecticut Historical Society

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Palmer, Marcus, 1795-

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Cherokee nation

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Although the Treaty of Hopewell (1785) defined the boundaries of the Cherokee Nation and the U.S., Congress during the Confederation period was unable to keep white squatters off Cherokee lands. With violence escalating between Cherokees and settlers, particularly those of the "State of Franklin" (now Tennessee), Congress in Sept. of 1788 issued a proclamation forbidding white intrustion on Cherokee land. From the description of A talk from the head men warriers of the Cherokey Natio...

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Mead, Jeffrey Bingham.

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