Benjamin Hawkins letters, 1797-1812
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- 1797/1812
- Description
Letters concerning southern Indian affairs, 1796-1812, from Hawkins to Col. David Henley, U.S. War Dept. agent based in Knoxville; James Jackson, governor of Georgia, 1798-1801; and Harry Toulmin, a prominent Mobile resident and later federal judge in the Mississippi Territory. Subjects include setting the boundary line between the U.S. and the Creek Nation along the Clinch River and settlers on Indian lands there (1797); horse thefts and Creeks ...
- Creator
Hawkins, Benjamin, 1754-1816
- Contributing Institution
- Newberry Library
- Subjects
- Indian agents
Political science
Indians--Government relations
Governors
Borderlands
Squatters
Whites
Horse stealing
Murder
United States. Office of Indian Affairs
War
War of 1812
Henley, David, 1749-1823
Bowles, William Augustus, approximately 1763-1805
Toulmin, Harry, 1766-1823
Creek
Seminole - Type
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- Correspondence
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- Chicago citation style
- Hawkins, Benjamin, 1754-1816. Benjamin Hawkins letters, 1797-1812. 1797/1812. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/nby_eeayer/id/45053. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
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- Hawkins, Benjamin, 1754-1816, (1797/1812) Benjamin Hawkins letters, 1797-1812. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/nby_eeayer/id/45053
- MLA citation style
- Hawkins, Benjamin, 1754-1816. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/nby_eeayer/id/45053>.