11Cabinet Opinions on Sending an Agent to the Choctaw Indians, 1 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Cabinet Opinions on Sending an Agent to the Choctaw Indians
12From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Hamilton, 1 June [1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Cabinet Opinions on Sending an Agent to the Choctaw Indians, 1 June 1793
13To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 10 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...who gave him the transcript of the accounts of Dayton Pickering &c. The last was suspected & turned out; the first was not suspected but resigned. He wants Gardner to be made Agent with the Choctaw Indians & Campbell to have a commission in the army. Whatever impropriety there might be in their conduct, I have reason to believe Gardner to be a man of honor. Campbell is very impudent but as...
14To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne, 5 November 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
On 17 Oct. James Wilkinson had signed a convention with the Choctaw Indians agreeing to mark and establish the boundary line between the Choctaw Nation and the U.S. (
15To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne, 14 May 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
...takeover on 15 Apr. of the post and district of Ouachitas, along with the archives and public papers. Bowmar estimated the population of the district at 150 heads of families and noted that a village of about one hundred Choctaw Indians was located “eight or nine leagues from this place.”
16To Thomas Jefferson from John Forbes, 16 November 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
...purchase lands from the said Nation; Your Memorialists from friendly dispositions towards the United States, as well as from a desire to promote the interests and gratify the wishes of the said Choctaw Indians, and secure the payment of the said debts; exerted their influence with the chiefs of the said Nation, and prevailed upon them to present a Memorial to the President of the United...
17To James Madison from Willie Blount, 21 February 1810 (Madison Papers)
....S. For the next two years McKee was associated with Mathews in the abortive American attempts to annex portions of West and East Florida, and he also organized volunteer corps of Chickasaw and Choctaw Indians to serve with Andrew Jackson’s forces against the Creek Indians in 1814. At that time too, McKee regained his former position as agent to the Choctaw, and after 1818 he participated...
18Robert Ould to Thomas Jefferson, 23 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
school until at least 1821. In 1828 he introduced the Lancasterian system to an academy for Choctaw Indians in
19From James Madison to John Rhea, 1 June 1816 (Madison Papers)
...liberty with your name of putting it into the Commission for receiving subscriptions to the Nat: Bank; & from the War Dept. that you are appointed one of the Commissioners for Treating with the Choctaw Indians. I hope you will find it not inconvenient to assist in both of these services. The latter is one which will exercise the best judgment, and call for an enlarged view of the...
20Thomas Jefferson to Peter S. Du Ponceau, 30 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
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