[Letter] 1802 Nov. 12, Nashville [to] Colo[nel] R J Meggs [i.e., Meigs] / James Robertson
author: Robertson, James
date: November 12, 1802
extent: 2p
summary: This document is a letter dated November 12, 1802, written by James Robertson to Cherokee agent Return J. Meigs. Robertson describes a claim in which a Cherokee named Culsetche had his horse stolen from a White person. Both Robertson and James Jones attest to the credibility of the claim.
Repository: Special Collections Library, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Collection: MS-367
Box: n/a
Folder: n/a
Document: sc048
Page: [1] [jpg image]
Nashville
November 12th 1802
Sir
I understand that Culsetche a Cherokee Indian has applyed to you for pay for a horse Stolen from him by some white person some time [deleted: in the] ago near my Iron works, and suggests that I can establish his Claim, but I cannot further than from reports, but am Confident he lost a horse and that he was taken by some white person, as such a horse was taken a Cross [across] cumberland at Davis Ferry the morning after Culsetche lost his, and the Indians Said they tracked him from the place he was stolen to Davis Ferry -- This circumstance happened some time in the winter
1797 or
1798 and I think the horse was worth sixty dollars --
Colo [Colonel] Return J. [Jonathan] Meggs
[Signed] J [James] L. Robertson
I Certify that I lived at General Robertsons Iron works at the time the Indians horse was stolen and that the above state is true
John Jones
Letter
James Robertson
To
Colo R J [Colonel Return Jonathan] Meggs
