27281To Thomas Jefferson from Arthur Campbell, 25 April 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose for your Excellencys information a Letter just received from Colo. Martin and another from Major Lewis whom I had instructed to drive off the Indians from their haunts near Cumberland Gap. I have no hopes now that the Cherokees will sue for Peace whilst Augusta in Georgia is in the enemies hands and they can receive supplies from thence; several hundred of the Indian Women and...
27282To Thomas Jefferson from Arthur Campbell, 29 November 1782 (Jefferson Papers)
On my way here I shewed Colo. Preston the tooth I sent you. At first sight, before I told him where it was found, he give it as his opinion that it was of the same animal as those found near the Ohio, a tooth of which he had obtained above 30 years ago and thinks it was sent to England. Doctor Lee says it is the same species, of that sent to England from the Ohio, that being a member, he was...
27283To Thomas Jefferson from Arthur Campbell, 12 February 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
Late dispatches from General Greene and various Letters from Officers in Carolinia entreats the aid of the Mountain Militia, and I have taken the liberty once more to order them out notwithstanding their circumstances ill suits such a tour now. Matters yet unsettled with the Cherokees, and the Northwards already begun to annoy us; but altho, we have these, and other difficulties to combat...
27284To Thomas Jefferson from Arthur Campbell, 15 June 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
Washington [ co. ] 15 June 1781 . Encloses a letter from Joseph Martin which explains the reference in Campbell’s letter of 4 June “respecting an attack from the Indians and Tories from the South”; in that letter Martin informs Campbell that about 300 Indians are on their way to attend the proposed treaty; recommends that Campbell come immediately; has sent an express to Col. Sevier to come as...
27285To James Madison from Arthur Campbell, 25 January 1802 (Madison Papers)
I take the liberty to introduce to your notice, a Mr. Hargrove of the City of Baltimore, lately known as the Editor of a publication entitled the Temple of Truth . He is lately from misfortunes, become rathe⟨r⟩ straitned in his circumstances, and woul⟨d⟩ now be glad of accepting some public employment in the City he lives, that may be in the gift of the President or the heads of some of the...
27286Enclosure: Arthur Campbell to Beverley Randolph, 20 February 1790 (Washington Papers)
By different communications particularly a letter from one of the Kentucky Delegates of which an extract is inclosed I am informed that the unfriendly Southren Indians have notice of the ammunition intended for the Chickasaws and are preparing a force to try to take it. Piamingo when he set out from Holstein for the Chickasaws Towns, assured us, he would if possible, be back by the first of...
27287To George Washington from Arthur Campbell, 10 May 1789 (Washington Papers)
Although I am not honored with a personal acquaintance; yet I can count myself among the number of your early and uniform admirers, and who can now rejoice in seeing the affairs of my Country administered successfully by your hand in preference to any other. I was among the first that embraced the principles of the American revolution, and was not merely an inactive wellwisher; what was then...
27288To James Madison from Arthur Campbell, 18 April 1809 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
18 April 1809, Kentucky. Seeks the appointment as governor of the Illinois Territory, since “Mr. Boyle has declined accepting the office.” Says he is physically fit and his “mental faculties but little impaired.” The reason for “this abrupt overture” is that “the Illinois is an exposed frontier in the event of War” and a delay in appointing an executive “might be injurious to the public...
27289To James Madison from Arthur Campbell, 1 March 1804 (Madison Papers)
In a late publication I have read with delight the following Sentiment of the President of the United States. “Sensible as we are of the superior advantages of civil life, of the nourishment which industry provides for the body, and Science for the mind and morals, it is our duty to associate our Indian neighbours in these blessings, and to teach them to become fit members of organized...
27290To Thomas Jefferson from Arthur Campbell, 20 June 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
I send by this conveyance part of the Papers you desired in your Letter of the 23d. of May last . I have not yet received those that are in the hands of the Carolinia Officers, but this being so good an oppertunity I am desirous of forwarding what I have, at the same time you will please to consider them as sent to you as a private Gentleman or a member of the Philosophical Society, and not as...