MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT.TRANSMITTING A REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR, RELATIVE TO MURDERS COMMITTED BY THE INDIANS, IN THE STATE OF TENNESSEE

[Tennessee]

Verlag: Printed by Roger C. Weightman, Washington, 1813

19pp. Printed self-wrappers, stitched. Ink doodle on outer margin of p.12, with ink ransferring to pp.9-14, not affecting text. Foxing, light marginal staining. Good, untrimmed. Copies and extracts of letters relating to the death of Thomas Meredith at the hands of militant Creeks in March of 1812 and to the Duck River Massacre in May of that year. Meredith's death became a high-profile case and, along with other incidents such as the violence at Duck Creek, was an important public motivator for U.S. involvement in the Creek or "Red-Stick" War beginning in 1813. The bulk of the correspondence in this publication, from Indian Agent Benjamin Hawkins to Secretary of War William Eustis, is followed by several letters between Tennessee governor Willie Blount and Eustis. Blount forwards one letter by William Henry, who writes the same day he discovers Mrs. Crawley, a survivor of Duck Creek who was captured by the assailants and escaped from their village with the help of a sympathetic Creek woman. Scarce. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 30257. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers WRCAM38859

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Titel: MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT.TRANSMITTING A ...
Verlag: Printed by Roger C. Weightman, Washington
Erscheinungsdatum: 1813