Newberry Library - Letter Park Hill, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, to Rev. W.B. Sprague, Albany, N.Y., 1840 Feb. 24

Letter Park Hill, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, to Rev. W.B. Sprague, Albany, N.Y., 1840 Feb. 24

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Open book Letter Park Hill, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, to Rev. W.B. Sprague, Albany, N.Y., 1840 Feb. 24

Title Letter Park Hill, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, to Rev. W.B. Sprague, Albany, N.Y., 1840 Feb. 24

Creator Worcester, S. A. (Samuel Austin), 1798-1859

Date 1840

Subjects Cherokee Indians, Cherokee language, Civil disobedience, Missionaries, United States

Description Text on p. [1]-[4]; address on p. [4]

Summary February 24, 1840, letter to William Buell Sprague, a Congregational minister in Albany, N.Y., who had been among a group advising Worcester and Butler, to drop their appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Worcester outlines his views regarding "the propriety of our having exposed ourselves to imprisonment and the appeal." Following the letter is a note in the Cherokee language by the Cherokee minister John Huss and a translation of the note by Worcester.

Biographical/Historical Note Missionary to the Cherokee Indians, and translator and printer of the Bible and other works in the Cherokee language. Worcester began his missionary work with the Cherokee Indians in East Tennesse in 1825, and moved to New Echota, Ga. in 1827. In 1831 he and Elizur Butler were arrested and imprisoned for violating a Georgia ordinance forbidding white persons to live among the Indians without taking an oath of allegiance to the state and obtaining a license. The case was appealed in 1832 to the Supreme Court, which declared the Georgia law unconstitutional, but Worcester and Butler were not released until 1833. In 1835 Worcester established the Park Hill Mission among the Cherokees residing west of the Mississippi in the Indian Territory (now Oklahoma).

Extent 1 item (1 folded sheet (4 p.)) ; 25 cm

Format Correspondence, Texts

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

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Call Number Ayer MS 1017

BibID 149259

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2470px × 3139px 22.21 MB

File Created 09/06/2023

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