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David Brydie Mitchell papers [box 01], 1777-1843

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Title David Brydie Mitchell papers [box 01], 1777-1843

Creator Mitchell, David Brydie, 1766-1837

Date 1807-1822

Place Creek Nation, Georgia, Southern States, United States

Language English

Subjects Creek Indians, Georgia, Indian agents, Indians of North America, Seminole War, 1st, 1817-1818, United States

Description formerly known as Ayer MS 607a.

Summary Incoming and outgoing correspondence (including 42 letters from Georgia politician William H. Crawford, 1808-1822), mainly covering Mitchell's two tenures as Georgia governor and during his appointment by President Madison as Creek Indian agent, 1817-1821. Content concerns national and local politics, foreign affairs, military matters and the approaching War of 1812, the Yazoo land fraud, Florida history, attitudes and actions towards African-Americans and Indians, and Mitchell's attempts to deal with accusations of smuggling slaves to Alabama. Also, a miscellany of documents and correspondence mostly relating to the Creek Agency.

Biographical/Historical Note Governor of Georgia, 1809-1813 and 1815-1817, and agent of the United States to the Creek Indians, 1817-1821. Mitchell was dismissed from his agency post after Georgia governor John Clark, a political opponent, charged him with smuggling African slaves into the country.

Extent 0.8 linear feet (3 boxes)

Format Correspondence, Records

User-Contributed Transcription The following is a Copy of a Letter written to crossed out and Sent by mail to T.M. Bacot cashier of the Bank of So. Carolina in Charleston enclosing two notes of the denomination following.1 note of Ten dollars dated at Charleston 5th June 1811. No. 246. letter S. payable to Rt. Dewar, or bearer and signed T. Jones. President. and T.M. Bacot Cashr. Also 1 note of Five dollars dated at Charleston 5th May 1811. No. 481. letter D. payable to R- Dewar, or bearer, and signed T. Jones President and T.M. Bacot Cashier.Milledgeville Georgia9th June 1814SirSeeing in the newspapers a notice under your signature calling in the notes of Ten and five dollars formerly issued by the Bank of So. Carolina, in consequence of a number of counterfeits of those denominations being in circulation; I herewith enclose two notes, one for Ten and the other for five dollars which were in my possession at the time your notice appeared. They will not now

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Transcription Note This document was transcribed by volunteers as part of the Newberry Transcribe crowdsourcing initiative.

Archival Collection Title Edward E. Ayer Collection, Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection

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Call Number VAULT Ayer MS 606

BibID 991439488805867

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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