Today in Chickamauga History - September 1

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February 9, 2025
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Today in Chickamauga History

Today in Chickamauga History - September 1

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1788, September 1:  Congressional resolution regarding military protection of the Cherokee - Congress instructs the Secretary of War to have a sufficient number of troops ready to protect the Cherokee and their hunting grounds, as a result of a peace agreement between the Cherokee Nation and United States on November 28, 1785. North Carolina and Virginia are asked to cooperate with the troops in enforcing the treaty. - https://wardepartmentpapers.org/s/home/item/39506

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1801, September 1: Letter to Thomas Jefferson from James Wilkinson and Benjamin Hawkins - Communications of the 25th ult: Wilkinson and Hawkins were at Southwest Point as commissioners for talks with the Cherokees. Writing to the secretary of war on 25 Aug., they enclosed a copy of a message they had received from The Glass, who with some other Cherokee chiefs wanted to move the conference to Tellico. - https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-35-02-0150

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1831, September 1: TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1825-1843 – GRANT OF LANDS TO THE CHEROKEE TRIBE OF INDIANS BY THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT – Page 1 -
LETTER FROM JOSE MARIA LETONA TO COMMANDANT GENERAL
Executive Depart of the State of Coahuila and Texas His Excellency the Commandant General of these States under date 15th August last communicates to me the following: "Excellency To comply with the promises made to the Cherokee tribe of Indians, by the Supreme Government, and consulting the preservation of peace with the agricultural Tribes, I have proposed them their settlement on a fixed tract of land, and they having selected it on the Headwaters of the River Trinity and the Banks of the Sabine, I request Your Excellency, to cause that they be put into the possession of the same with the corresponding titles; and it is understood that the Commissioner appointed to that effect will agree to act in conjunction with Citizen Jose de las Piedras Colonel Commanding the frontier of Nacogdoches." Which I do communicate to your Honor for your information, and for the purpose of adopting the necessary measures that the aforesaid agricultural Tribe shall be represented before this Government through the medium of an attorney infact, and he be instructed for the same purpose for which alike proceedings have been adopted on the 19th July last as regards the Coushatta and Alabama Indians. God and Liberty, LEON A VICARIO 1st September 1831. (signed) Letona (signed) Santiago del Valle Secy. To the Hon: the Political Chief of the Department of Bexar. A true translation of the original Spanish which I attest. Geo. Fisher Translator to the Senate. –
https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth786490/m1/31/

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1838, September 1:  The detachment of Elijah HICKS, which includes WHITEPATH, departs from the camps around the Agency following the same path as Conrad’s detachment only to be likewise halted at Gunstocker Spring.

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