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Document: WT023

[Letter] 1839 July 7, Washington City, D.C. [to] Hyatt, MacBurney [i.e., McBurney ?] and Co. / W[illiam] H[olland] T[homas]

author: Thomas, William Holland, 1805-1893
date: July 7, 1839
extent: 1p
summary: Letter, dated July 7, 1839, from William Holland Thomas to Hyatt, McBurney(?) and Co. concerning payment of Thomas' debts in the amount of 600 dollars with funds that he received from the U.S. through a successful claim. Thomas also makes mention of the fact that Eastern Cherokee claims under the Treaty of 1835 are currently under investigation by T. Hartley Crawford, Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
repository: Hoskins Special Colections Library, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
collection: MS2058 William Holland Thomas
box: 1
folder: 1
document: wt023
subject headings:

Letters

Cherokee Indians--Treaties

Cherokee Indians--Claims

Cherokee Indians--Government relations

United States. Office of Indian Affairs

North Carolina

Page: [1] [djvu image | jpg image]

Washington City DC July 7, 1839
Messrs. Hyatt[unclear: MacBurney]and Co [Company]
gentlemen.

your favor of the 1, Inst [Instant] was duly received & your kind invitations to me therein expressed are duly appreciated, and when goods I have purchased are paid for and more wanted such kindness will not be forgotten,

Today the US.paid me a small claim for the first $600 of which is herewith enclosed which please appropriate as follows.

To J J McCarter, on my individual debt $ 100.00
" HatchFlemming& co [company] -- 100.00
" Gilleland& son 100.00
On my debt with you 200.00
[unclear: Weed]& Fanning 100.00
$ 600.00

I write in the absence of all my Mercantile papers. some discrepancy may be found in the names I will continue to remit as fast as my claims are [deleted: received] paid and as you all have waited longer than I intended remittance will be made in the best funds I can get I expect to be detained here until some time in the next month. The claims of Cherokeesarrising [arising] under the treaty of 1835 are now undergoing an investigation by the commissioner of Indian Affairs, and that with my other business will require me to remain here the time stated, which will probably be too late for me to risk going by Charlestonon my return home

yours & c [et cetera]
[Signed] WHT [William Holland Thomas]