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of correspondence, manuscript notes, transcriptions, extensive historical research, memoranda, and published and unpublished documents.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
- Cherokee Indians -- Relocation -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Cherokee Indians -- Social life and customs -- Sources 1
- Cherokee Indians -- Treaties -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Correspondence -- Georgia -- 1751-1800 1
- Correspondence -- Georgia -- 1801-1850 1
- Correspondence -- Southern States -- 1751-1800 1
- Correspondence -- Southern States -- 1801-1850 1
- Creek Indians -- Government relations -- Sources 1
- Creek Indians -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Creek Indians -- Wars -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Dakota Indians -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Georgia -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Sources 1
- Indian agents -- Southern States -- Correspondence 1
- Indians of North America -- Missions -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Indians of North America -- Social life and customs -- Sources 1
- Indians of North America -- Southern States -- Government relations -- 1789-1869 -- Sources 1
- Indians of North America -- Wars -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Seminole Indians -- Wars -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Trail of Tears, 1838-1839 -- Sources 1
- Transcripts 1 + ∧ less
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