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287.October 28, 1823.

288.January 19, 1824. This memorial is signed by John Ross, George Lowrey, Major Ridge, and Elijah Hicks, as the Cherokee delegation.

289.January 30, 1824.

290.February 17, 1824.

291.February 28, 1824.

292.Letter of Georgia delegation to Congress, March 10, 1824. Memorial of Georgia legislature to Congress, December 18, 1823.

293.March 30, 1824.

294.March 29, 1824.

295.This Creek war was in large measure, if not wholly, superinduced by the unlawful and unjust aggressions by citizens of that State upon the rights and territory of the Creeks. Foreign emissaries, however, it is true, encouraged and inflamed the just indignation of the Creeks against the Georgians to the point of armed resistance.

296.May 3, 1824.

297.April 16, 1824.

298.April 24, 1824.

299.February 5, 1827.

300.Letter of Rev. David Brown to Thomas L. McKenney, December 13, 1825.

301.United States Statutes at Large, Vol. IV, p. 217.

302.March 13, 1827.

303.June 4, 1828.

304.January 26, 1828.

305.March 20, 1828.

306.April 20, 1820.

307.Letter of Governor Miller, of Arkansas, to Secretary of War, June 20, 1820.

308.Letter of Secretary of War to Maj. William Bradford, July 21, 1821.

309.Letter of Secretary of War to Governor Miller, of Arkansas, November 6, 1822.

310.October 8, 1821, Governor Miller was instructed by the Secretary of War to remove the Cherokees from lands south of the Arkansas, but its execution was deferred several years pending the establishment of the Cherokee boundaries.

311.Secretary of War to Arkansas Cherokee delegation in Washington, February 12, 1823.

312.March 3, 1824.

313.Indian Office to Cherokee delegation of Arkansas, March 13, 1824, and Secretary of War to Governor Crittenden, of Arkansas, April 28, 1824.

314.Secretary of War to Governor Crittenden, of Arkansas, April 28, 1824.

315.Indian Office to Agent E. W. Duval, Little Rock, Arkansas, July 8, 1824.

316.July 8, 1824.

317.Secretary of War to Governor Izard, of Arkansas, April 16, 1825.

318.See map on file in Indian Office.

319.May, 1825.

320.In a letter from Agent Meigs to the Secretary of War, dated June 2, 1817, Major Lovely is spoken of as having been agent residing with the Cherokees on the Arkansas. He had been an officer of the Virginia line throughout the Revolution and participated in the capture of Burgoyne. He had lived some time in the family of President Madison's father, and went to Tennessee at an early day, whence (after living many years among the Cherokees) he removed with the emigrant party to the Arkansas. In a letter to the Hon. John Cocke from the Secretary of War, December 15, 1826, it is, however, stated that Major Lovely was a factor or trader in the Arkansas country, who took an active part in the preliminary negotiations that led finally to the conclusion of the treaty with the Osages of September 25, 1818. It also appears from the same letter that the estimated area of Lovely's purchase was 7,392,000 acres, and that when the west boundary line of the Cherokees was run, in 1825, it was found that 200 square miles of Lovely's purchase were included within its limits.

321.Secretary of War to Arkansas Cherokee delegation in Washington, February 12, 1823.

322.Secretary of War to Arkansas Cherokee delegation in Washington, October 8, 1821.

323.United States Statutes at Large, Vol. IV, p. 153.

324.United States Statutes at Large, Vol. IV, p. 40.

325.April 3, 1827.

326.Letter of T. L. McKenney to Secretary of War, March 18, 1828.

327.March 27, 1828.

328.April 11, 1828.

329.The areas here given by the State authorities were largely below the quantity actually contained within the limits of the cessions within the States of Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee, as will be seen by a glance at the table of such areas on page 378.

330.United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 311.

331.Letter of Secretary of War to Western Cherokee delegation. May 17, 1828.

332.Letter of Sub-Agent Brearly to Secretary of War, September 27, 1828.

333.May 28, 1828.

334.Letter of T. L. McKenney to Secretary of War, January 21, 1830.

335.United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 414.

336.United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 286.

337.See Creek treaty of 1833, United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 417.

338.United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 311.

339.See preamble to Creek treaty of February 14, 1833, United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 417.

340.In March, 1832.

341.United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 240.

342.United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 478.

343.See Indian Office files.

344.See Indian Office records.

345.United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 478.

346.United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 488.

347.May 27, 1828.

348.Letter of War Department to Hugh Montgomery, Cherokee agent, May 27, 1828, and to General William Carroll, May 30, 1829.

349.December 18, 1828.

350.Letter of T. L. McKenney to Secretary of War, November, 17, 1829.

351.Letter of T. L. McKenney to Hugh Montgomery, Cherokee agent, August 6, 1830.

352.Letter of Cherokee delegation (East) to Secretary of War, January 21, 1829.

353.Letter of Secretary of War to Cherokee delegation, April 18, 1829.

354.December 20, 1828.

355.Agent Montgomery to the Secretary of War, July 11, 1829.

356.Secretary of War to General William Carroll, May 27, 1829.

357.June 25, 1829.

358.November 19, 1829.

359.June 23, 1829.

360.December 19, 1829.

361.Among other legislation on this subject enacted by Georgia may be enumerated the following, viz:

1. A penalty of forfeiture of all right to his land and improvements was denounced against any Cherokee who should employ any white man, or the slave of any white man, as a tenant-cropper, or assistant in agriculture, or as a miller or millwright.

2. Any Indian who should enroll for emigration and afterwards refuse to emigrate should forfeit all right to any future occupancy within the State.

3. No Indian should be allowed the use of more than 160 acres of land, including his dwelling house.

4. Grants were to be issued for all lots drawn in the late land and gold lottery, though they might lie within the improvements of an Indian who had by any previous Cherokee treaty received a reservation either in Georgia or elsewhere.

5. No contract between a white man and an Indian, either verbal or written, should be binding unless established by the testimony of two white witnesses.

6. Any Indian forcibly obstructing the occupancy by the drawer of any lot drawn in the land and gold lottery should be subject to imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

362.Letter of War Department to Hugh Montgomery, Cherokee agent, June 9, 1830.

363.Letter of Acting Secretary of War to H. Montgomery, Cherokee Agent, June 18, 1830.

364.Letter of Acting Secretary of War to H. Montgomery, Cherokee Agent, June 26, 1830.

365.September 1, 1830.

366.October 20, 1830.

367.Action of Cherokee national council, October 22, 1830.

368.Cherokee Nation vs. State of Georgia, Peters's United States Supreme Court Reports, Vol. V, p. 1.

369.April 17, 1832.

370.July 18, 1832.

371.September 4, 1832.

372.Worcester vs. State of Georgia, Peters's United States Supreme Court Reports, Vol. VI, p. 515.

373.According to the statement of Hon. Geo. N. Briggs, a member of Congress from Massachusetts, President Jackson remarked, after the case of Worcester vs. State of Georgia was decided, "Well, John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it."