Thomas Jefferson Papers

Notes on Choctaw Indian Lands, 20 October 1804

Notes on Choctaw Indian Lands

[on or before 20 Oct. 1804]


 140
3 ½  640
 250   5600
69  640 84 
 3    100 89600
207 150 
 34 ½ 16<0,000>/1,00<0,000> 
241
13[. . .]

The Choctaws hold 140 miles on the Missipi

every 11. miles E. & W. there, give 1. Milln. as.

<when they pass Wilkinson’s line,>

from mouth of Yazoo to line of 31.° is 100. miles

15. mi. E. & W. on 100. mi. length give 1. milln. as.


from 31.° to 34°–30 little prairie 240. miles

7. mi. E. & W. thro’ that length, give 1. milln. as.


all the Choctaw lands on the waters of the Mispi. are abt 10. millions as. an annuity of 6000. D. would be a principal of 100,000. suppose their debts 50,000. makes 150,000

equal to 1½ cents per acre

MS (DLC: TJ Papers, 146:25462); torn; undated, but see previous document; entirely in TJ’s hand on a partial address sheet with remnant text “ington City” in unidentified hand.

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