On April 9, 1734, the General Assembly of South Carolina reported to the King of England on the state of the southern colonies. The Assembly writes that the French have been very successful in gaining Choctaw and Creek alliance through gifts and intermarriage, and that British colonists should give more gifts to the Cherokee Indians who "have lately become very insolent to Your Majesty's Subjects Trading among them." The writers say that blacks outnumber whites in the colony, and that many slave insurrections have been attempted. The authors also fear that Indians could disrupt international trade by blocking the harbors.
David Henley Papers, 1791-1817
Continental Army officer; commissioner of Indian Affairs in Tennessee; and clerk in the War Dept., Washington, D.C. Correspondence and papers dealing with treaties, agreements, and relations between the whites and the Choctaw and Creek Indians, including the exchange of prisoners, reparations for murders, inroads by whites and Indians, and compensation for stolen horses; establishment of post roads from Tennessee to the South Carolina border and to Natchez, Miss.; establishment of a trading post at Muscle Shoals, Ala.; and the establishment of the Indian Treaty Line from the Kentucky Trace to the Gaps of the Cumberland and along Campbell's line to the Clinch River, and the difficulties of the commissioners in deciding on this line.
Everard was the last proprietary governor of North Carolina. This is a single letter from Everard to Thomas Amory, prominent Boston merchant, discussing problems faced with Native Americans, and ordering sugar and window glass.
Hawley Family Papers, 1794-1953
Includes a typed copy of Gideon Hawley's journal of his missionary service to Indians in Massachusetts and New York in 1794.
John Lawson. A New Voyage to Carolina. London, 1709.
In 1700, Lawson, an English explorer, set off on a 60 day from Charleston, South Carolina, through the Carolinas' interior, ending at the mouth of the Pamlico River in North Carolina. Lawson gives in-depth descriptions of the Indian nations that inhabited the Piedmont and Coastal Plains of the Carolinas. With the assistance of Native translators, he was careful to record details about the distinct cultures and diverse customs of more than twenty tribes.
Shows the area of western North Carolina, eastern Tennessee, and northwest South Carolina.
Covers the Atlantic coast from Cape Canaveral to Philadelphia; extends west to Natchitoches, Louisiana; with names of Indian tribes.
