United States of America, to all to whom these presents shall come, greeting : whereas under the nineteenth article of the treaty entered unto at Dancing Rabbit Creek ... : letters patent, 1841 Oct. 6.

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United States of America, to all to whom these presents shall come, greeting : whereas under the nineteenth article of the treaty entered unto at Dancing Rabbit Creek ... : letters patent, 1841 Oct. 6.

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Letters patent, Oct. 6, 1841, signed by President John Tyler, granting, in accordance with the provisions of the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, to Reuben H. Grant and Jefferson Clement, and their heirs, a 323+ acre land reservation in Mississippi. The tract had previously been granted to Tishoshe-le-ta, a Choctaw Indian, in fufillment of the treaty provisions, and its sale by Tishoshe-le-ta to Grant and Clements had already been approved by President Tyler. On the document's verso are endorsements regarding its use as an exhibit in a later court case.

1 item (1 leaf) : vellum ; 40 x 35 cm.

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