Meigs family papers
Contributors: Meigs, Return Jonathan, 1764-1825; Meigs, Return J. (Return Jonathan), 1801-1891
Language: eng
Number of pages: 75
Subjects: Correspondence; Practice of law; United States. Postmaster General; United States; Indians of North America; Politics and government; Cherokee Indians; History
Description: Chiefly correspondence of Return Jonathan Meigs (1740-1823) relating principally to his activities as Indian agent to the Cherokees (1801-1823), with a few letters (1772-1774) concerning his Revolutionary War service.  Includes a letter (1804 Dec. 10) from Meigs to Andrew Pickens relating to Cherokee lands.  Papers of Meigs's son, Return Jonathan Meigs (1764-1825), relate to his tenure as governor of Ohio (1810-1814) and include a letterbook (1820-1821) while he served as U.S. Postmaster General.  Papers of Return Jonathan Meigs (1801-1891), lawyer and attorney general of Tennessee, concern the removal of Indians from Alabama and the Mississippi Territory from 1831 to 1834.
Notes: Microfilm edition excludes the letter from Return Jonathan Meigs (1740-1823) to Andrew Pickens.

Open to research.

Microfilm edition available, no. 17,052.

Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1977.

Gifts and purchases, 1930-1991.

Collection material in English.