John Coffee papers relating to negotiations with the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Ltr: Cass to Coffee
Image Count:
4
Description:
Autograph letter, signed. and Very faint (mostly illegible) pencil note signed by Elbert Herring[?] on envelope overleaf.
Subject (Name):
Cherokee Indians --Government relations, Choctaw Indians --Government relations, Coffee, John, 1772-1833, Herring, E. (Elbert), 1777-1876 , and United States. Office of Indian Affairs
John Coffee papers relating to negotiations with the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Memorandum
Image Count:
3
Description:
General John Coffee (1772-1833), born in Tennessee, was a delegate of the United States Government in negotiations with Indian nations of the southern states during the Andrew Jackson administration, and was a friend and business partner of President Jackson.
Subject (Name):
Coffee, John,--1772-1833
Subject (Topic):
Cherokee Indians--Government relations, Cherokee Indians--Treaties, Creek Indians--Treaties, Indians of North America--Southern States, and Indians of North America--Treaties
Seven ALS from James Darrach, a Philadelphia businessman, to his wife Eliza while on a business trip to New Orleans. Darrach travelled on horseback to Pittsburg and Louisville, and by boat down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to Natchez and New Orleans, to acquire cotton and sugar which he shipped back to Pennsylvania. Darrach devotes the majority of his letters to lamenting his absence from his wife and family, and provides brief descriptions of the progress of his travel, hunting during the boat trips, acquiring meat from Indians, conducting his business, and witnessing the debauchery in New Orleans, "the Modern Sodom."
Description:
Gift of Charles and Lindley Eberstadt, 1971.
Subject (Geographic):
Mississippi River--Description and travel, New Orleans (La.)--Commerce, New Orleans (La.)--Social life and customs, and Ohio River--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Darrach, Eliza and Darrach, James, fl. 1813-1814
Subject (Topic):
Cotton--Commerce, Indians of North America--Southern States, and Sugar--Commerce
John Coffee papers relating to negotiations with the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations
Container / Volume:
Box 2
Image Count:
4
Abstract:
The papers consist of correspondence, maps and documents relating to two delegations led by John Coffee to negotiate with the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations. The first delegation (in 1829) was to gather information on a Cherokee and Creek boundary dispute. Two autograph letters, signed, from Secretary of War Lewis Cass and one retained copy of a letter from Coffee to Georgia Governer John Forsyth describe this mission. Two manuscript maps (stored in a portfolio) document the disputed Cherokee boundary lines. A related memorandum summarizes Cherokee and Creek boundary treaties. Coffee's second mission (in 1831-1832) was to negotiate with the Chickasaw and Choctaw nations regarding "emigration," as outlined by two autograph letters, signed, from Cass and one autograph letter, signed, from John Eaton (former Secretary of War who led the negotiations with Coffee). The Chickasaw reaction to these negotiations is documented by two letters: one from sixteen members of the Chickasaw Nation protesting plans for removal, and one from tribal leader George W. Long relating to plans for Chickasaw people to remain. Other documents include records of expenses incurred by Coffee and Eaton during the mission. The papers are accompanied by a pamphlet about and photograph of John Coffee's tomb.
Subject (Geographic):
Cherokee Nation--Boundaries, Cherokee Nation--Boundaries--Maps, and Creek Nation--Boundaries
Subject (Name):
Cass, Lewis,--1782-1866, Coffee, John,--1772-1833, Eaton, John, Forsyth, John, and Long, George W
Subject (Topic):
Cherokee Indians--Government relations, Cherokee Indians--Treaties, Chickasaw Indians--Relocation, Chocktaw Indians--Relocation, Creek Indians--Treaties, Indian Removal, 1813-1903, Indians of North America--Relocation, Indians of North America--Southern States, and Indians of North America--Treaties
"Catalogue of paintings by Colonel Trumbull; including eight subjects of the American Revolution with near two hundred and fifty portraits of persons distinguished in that important period. Painted by him from the life. Now exhibiting in the gallery of Yale College" (with special t.p.): p.[405]-439. and Items digitized: Two of five portraits of native Americans bound in between p. 164-165.
Publisher:
B.L. Hamlen, and Wiley and Putnam ;
Subject (Name):
Creek Indians--Portraits
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Portraits and Indians of North America--Southern States
"Catalogue of paintings by Colonel Trumbull; including eight subjects of the American Revolution with near two hundred and fifty portraits of persons distinguished in that important period. Painted by him from the life. Now exhibiting in the gallery of Yale College" (with special t.p.): p.[405]-439. and Items digitized: Three, of five, portraits of native Americans bound in between p. 164-165.
Publisher:
B.L. Hamlen, and Wiley and Putnam ;
Subject (Name):
Creek Indians--Portraits
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Portraits and Indians of North America--Southern States