Administrative files, 1835-1837.

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Administrative files, 1835-1837.

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This series consists of Governor Clay's administrative files, containing reports, correspondence, acts, financial records, affadavits, oaths, bonds, petitions, proclamations and maps. Included are numerous copies of outgoing letters written by Clay. Most of the subseries are quite small, containing only a folder or two. Small series concern the printing and disbribution of Aiken's Digest of the Laws of the State of Alabama, the financial crisis of 1837 and the work of an 1836 Commission to examine the affairs of the Bank of the State of Alabama. The financial crisis records contain numerous petitions calling for a special session of the Legislature to deal with the crisis, including one entitled a "circular address of the Internal Improvement Committee of Montgomery County [Ala.]." The miscellaneous subseries contains a financial statement regarding the Governor's contingent fund, 1836 Mar. 26; a draft copy of a message to the Senate delivered 1836 Jan. 11 regarding the Governor's veto of an act relating to circuit court judges; and a copy of a letter sent by Clay to President Andrew Jackson at the end of Jackson's term of office. The subseries also includes information concerning the Ala. and Tenn. Railroad Company, the Cahawba Navigation Company, land sales, the State Salt Works, a smallpox epidemic in Larkinville, Jackson Co., Ala., correctional facilities in other states, and the appointment of Charles D. Connor to care for and repair buildings at the Univ. of Ala. An oversize announcement concerning a contested elective in Marshall County in 1836 is also in this subseries. The bulk of the series relates to conflicts between settlers and Creek and Cherokee Indians in Ala. One folder concerns the Cherokees and the Treaty of New Echota. Included is a copy of the treaty and copies of letters between Treaty Commissioner, J.F. Schermerhorn and various Cherokee chiefs. Other letters discuss treaty negotiations and land use. More than one cubic foot of the records concern the Creek Indian War of 1836, the related Seminole War and other miscellaneous skirmishes between the settlers and the Creek Indians in Ala. Records discuss the formation of militia companies, supplies of rations and arms to the militia, troop movements within Ala. and Ga., and the payment of troops. Also discussed are reports of "friendly Indians," i.e., those who collaborated with the white settlers, and subsidies paid to those Indians, Creeks who moved into the Cherokee Nation, and runaway slaves who collaborated with the Indians. Included are letters from Indians stating their position in the disagreements, affadavits relating to the escape of Indian prisoners from the Montgomery Co. jail in 1836 June, and one map indicating the position taken by the South Ala. Volunteer Brigade and Brig. General Moore along the Hatchechubbee Creek. The series also discusses the Creek land frauds, Seminole Indians and individual Indians Known as Jim Henry (Jim Boy?) and Hopoithleyoholo (Opotheleyaholo). Correspondents in this subseries include Lewis Cass, William Wellborn, E. Shackleford, Winfield Scott, Thomas Jessup, A.J. Pickett, Major General Patterson, and C.C. Clay, Jr.

Originials: 2 cubic ft. (4 archives boxes and 1 oversized box).Copies: 5 microfilm reels.

Alabama Department of Archives and History

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SNAC Resource ID: 8314975

Alabama Department of Archives and History

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University of Alabama

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Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

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Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866

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Cass, Lewis, 1782-1866

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Lewis Cass (October 9, 1782 – June 17, 1866) was an American military officer, politician, and statesman. He represented Michigan in the United States Senate and served in the Cabinets of two U.S. Presidents, Andrew Jackson and James Buchanan. He was also the 1848 Democratic presidential nominee and a leading spokesman for the Doctrine of Popular Sovereignty, which held that the people in each territory should decide whether to permit slavery. Born in Exeter, New Hampshire, he attended Philli...

Shackleford, E.

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Pickett, Albert James, 1810-1858

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Albert James Pickett was a planter and historian in Montgomery, Ala. From the description of History of the City of Montgomery : typescript, 1852. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122498627 A. J. Pickett was a planter, historian, and author who resided in Montgomery County, Ala. His "History of Alabama" was published in 1851. From the description of Papers, 1799-1922. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122498707 ...

Clay, C.C. 1789-1866.

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Alabama. Militia.

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Cahawba Navigation Company (Ala.)

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Alabama. Bank of the State of Alabama.

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Wellborn, William, d.1867.

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Alabama. Militia. South Alabama Volunteer Brigade.

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Alabama. Governor (1835-1837 : Clay)

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Alabama. General Assembly

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Clay, Clement Claiborne, 1816-1882.

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Jessup, Thomas J.

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Thomas J. Jessup, a resident of Tennessee, served as a commander in the U.S. Army during the Creek Wars. From the description of Letter, 1845. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122548791 ...

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

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Alabama and Tennessee Railroad Company.

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Connor, Charles D.

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Opotheleyaholo.

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Henry, Jim, 1950-

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Hopoithleyoholo.

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Internal Improvement Committee of Montgomery County (Ala.)

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Jim Boy.

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