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Title David Brydie Mitchell papers - additions

Creator Mitchell, David Brydie, 1766-1837

Date 1816-1829

Place Georgia, United States

Language English

Subjects Creek Indians, Indian agents, Indians of North America, Slave trade, United States

Summary Outgoing correspondence to Georgia politician William Harris Crawford mainly covering Mitchell's work as a Creek agent and defending himself against accusations of slave smuggling. Eight autographed letters to Crawford, dated 10 November 1816-19 June 1829, cover Mitchell's negotiations with tribes that led to the signing of the the Treaty of the Creek Agency (1818), his general observations of the Creek Agency, an attack by the Georgia milita on a Chehaw Indian village, and his efforts to defend himself against slave smuggling accusations. Also included is a copy of a letter, dated 11 February 1818 and in Mitchell's hand, from Georgia District Attorney William Davis regarding the slave smuggling charges.

Biographical/Historical Note David Brydie Mitchell was Governor of Georgia, 1809-1813 and 1815-1817, and agent of the United States to the Creek Indians, 1817-1821.

Extent 9 items.

Format Correspondence, Manuscripts, Records, Sources

User-Contributed Transcription Creek Agency 16th October 1817Dear Sir,I have been anxious to hear how the illegible with whichyour Son with afflicted when you last wrote illegible from Halifax Court have illegible had teammates, but have not heard one word. Hope he is now rested to goodhealth. When that letter reached me, I was in bed suffering from a violent attack of bilious fever, illegible I have no doubt, by theheat and fatigue I underwent at Fort Hawkins, and subsequentanxiety and illegible of illegible . I have now been spending afew weeks with my family at the Agency, and we have all beenmuch benefited by the Change.I am much flattered and gratified by the opinionyou illegible of the success of my exertion with the Indians. you knowof my deposition to do things by halves, and if I fail infulfilling the expectations of government, it will not be for the want of zeal in the performance of my duty. One of the greatestplagues I have yet met with is, the universal desire whichappear to prevail in every one to speculate when the Indians,and the foremost in this clap are, a set of men formerly of theArmy, and now engaged in trade of some kind or other, particularlythose who claim to be Settlers to the illegible at the different posts.Under this pretended authority they engage, I may safely say,two thirds of the Indian trade. I shall make an effort to correct this illegible through General Gaines, so soon as I canhave a personal interview with him, but it will be attendedwith difficulty unless the illegible is better Supplied, and

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Call Number VAULT Ruggles 506

BibID 999593838805867

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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