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Hawkins, Benjamin, 1754-1816

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1754 - 1816

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Benjamin Hawkins letters

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-368
Abstract North Carolina planter, U.S. senator, and Indian agent. 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...
Dates: 1797-1812

John Howard Payne Papers

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-689
Abstract

Material collected in the 1830s and 1840s by actor, playwright and editor John Howard Payne, relating to American Indians, primarily concerning the Cherokees for Payne's intended history of the Cherokee Nation. Collection consists of fourteen volumes of correspondence, manuscript notes, transcriptions, extensive historical research, memoranda, and published and unpublished documents.

Dates: 1794-1842; Majority of material found within 1825 - 1842

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Cherokee Indians -- Government relations -- Sources 1
Cherokee Indians -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Cherokee Indians -- Land tenure -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Cherokee Indians -- Missions -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Cherokee Indians -- Religion 1