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- Transcripts of extracts of letters regarding the Georgia-Alabama Boundary Survey Commission.
- 1824
- In the first letter, dated Governor George M. Troup of Georgia addresses concerns (probably raised by John Murphy, governor of Alabama) about the locations of Indian towns that will be used as references when determining the boundary between the...
- 2010-11-17
- Expense records kept by Richard Blount while serving on the Georgia-Alabama Boundary Survey Commission.
- 1826
- Expenses include food, supplies, and pack horses; room and board; ferriage; and labor and services (for example, washing and shoeing horses, or "Cherokee man to show the Cherokee line"). Transcripts are included.
- 2011-10-12
- Miscellaneous material written by Richard Blount while serving on the Georgia-Alabama Boundary Survey Commission.
- 1826
- The material includes notes, lists of distances traveled between points, and sketches of land districts in northeastern Alabama
- 2010-11-08
- Account of expenses incurred by Charles Lewis while serving on the Georgia-Alabama Boundary Survey Commission.
- 1826
- Lewis was one of two commissioners representing Alabama during the project. Expenses listed here include his payment for serving on the commission and the additional work Governor John Murphy required "in ascertaining the points of difference which...
- 2010-11-17
- Letter from E. Wood in Milledgeville, Georgia, to Richard Blount in Lebanon, Georgia.
- 1826-05-30
- The letter requests that the members of the Georgia-Alabama Boundary Survey Commission ("charged with running the dividing line between the States of Georgia and Alabama") meet in Milledgeville the next month. A transcript is included.
- 2010-11-17
- Journal kept by Richard Blount while serving on the Georgia-Alabama Boundary Survey Commission.
- 1826-06
- In the journal Blount discusses the landscape; encounters with Cherokee Indians in the area; and problems the surveyors faced during their work. He also includes a list of Cherokee words with their Creek and English equivalents.
- 2011-10-12
- Transcript of a letter from Governor John Murphy in Claiborne, Alabama, to Charles Lewis in Jackson County, Alabama.
- 1826-06-13
- In the letter Murphy mentions that Lewis has not replied to recent correspondence regarding his appointment to the Georgia-Alabama Survey Commission. Murphy sends this message by an express messenger ("It would not be proper to abandon a matter of...
- 2010-11-17
- Statement by J. Crawford and E. Hamilton, appointing Richard Blount as treasurer of the Georgia-Alabama Boundary Survey Commission.
- 1826-06-26
- 2010-11-17
- Transcript of a letter from Governor George M. Troup in Milledgeville, Georgia, to Joel Crawford, Richard Blount, and E. Hamilton of the Georgia-Alabama Boundary Survey Commission.
- 1826-07-07
- In the letter Troup introduces the men to a Colonel Brearly and asks for their cooperation (though he does not give details about Brearly's work): "he stands in need of all the support we can extend in the execution of his delicate & difficult...
- 2010-11-17
- Transcript of a letter from Governor George M. Troup in Milledgeville, Georgia, to Joel Crawford, Richard Blount, and E. Hamilton of the Georgia-Alabama Boundary Survey Commission.
- 1826-07-21
- In the letter Troup commends the decisions the men have made regarding the route of the survey, and he asks that they "continue to place me in possession of every occurrence which you may deem important or interesting."
- 2010-11-17
- Report from the Georgia representatives of the Georgia-Alabama Boundary Survey Commission, describing their activities and route from Milledgeville on June 26 to Nickajack on August 17.
- 1826-07-26
- The commissioners discuss the towns through which they traveled; the points marked on the proposed boundary line; and the landscape in northeastern Alabama and northwestern Georgia. They also refer to the conflict between themselves and the...
- 2010-11-17
- Letter from Richard Blount and E. Hamilton in the "Cherokee Nation," reporting on the work of the Georgia-Alabama Boundary Survey Commission.
- 1826-08-02
- In the letter the men explain the causes of the commission's "apparent slothfulness": their "progress has been greatly retarded by frequent recurrences of local attraction" and the trees and uneven landscape have made it "almost impossible to be...
- 2010-11-17
- Letter from Richard Blount in the "Cherokee Nation 165 miles on our course," to John W. A. Sanford in Milledgeville, Georgia.
- 1826-08-12
- In the letter Blount reports on the progress of the Georgia-Alabama Survey Commission; although the team is having difficulty finding its next point, his "prospects have brightend" and his "hopes strengthend lately"; the commissioner from Alabama...
- 2010-11-17
- Transcript of a letter from Charles Lewis and A. P. Bagby of the Georgia-Alabama Boundary Survey Commission, to Governor John Murphy.
- 1826-08-28
- In the letter the men report that after negotiations, Alabama and Georgia have not agreed on a boundary line between the two states. They argue that such conflict was unavoidable, and they maintain that their own intention was "to place the...
- 2010-11-17
- Letter from Governor George M. Troup in Milledgeville, Georgia, to Joel Crawford, Richard Blount, and E. Hamilton of the Georgia-Alabama Boundary Survey Commission.
- 1826-08-30
- In the letter Troup discusses the conflict between Georgia and Alabama over the boundary, including the extra commissioner Alabama appointed. He approves the report that Crawford, Blount, and Hamilton submitted; warns that they "will have to...
- 2010-11-17
- "A sketch of the Cherokee disposition towards runing [sic] the boundary line of Georgia thro their country."
- 1826-08-31
- Account written by Richard Blount (while serving on the Georgia-Alabama Boundary Survey Commission) describing the Cherokees' negative reaction to the boundary survey. Blount met with Cherokee representatives to defend the work: "We are sent here...
- 2010-11-08
- Transcript of a letter from Governor John Murphy to Charles Lewis of the Georgia-Alabama Boundary Survey Commission.
- 1826-09
- In the letter Murphy mentions that "the Commissioners of Georgia and Alabama have not come to any agreement, on the Subject of the Line dividing the two States." He directs Lewis to survey the the line on the Chattahoochee River again, so the...
- 2010-11-17
- Transcript of an extract of a letter from Judge Kelly to Governor John Murphy of Alabama.
- 1826-09-10
- In the letter Kelly commends the negotiation efforts of the Alabama representatives on the Georgia-Alabama Survey Commission; he does not give specific details, but he alludes to tension between the two states. Though not a commissioner himself...
- 2010-11-17
- Letter from J. Crawford to Richard Blount and E. Hamilton at Millers Bend.
- 1826-09-14
- The three men represented Georgia on the Georgia-Alabama Survey Commission. In the letter Crawford explains that he has just "borrowed a sufficient sum of money to meet our immediate wants," and he has written the governor to request more funds. He...
- 2010-11-17
- Letter from Richard Blount to Major Charles Lewis in Bellefonte, Alabama.
- 1826-09-19
- Both men served on the Georgia-Alabama Survey Commission; Lewis represented Alabama, and Blount represented Georgia. In the letter Blount reports that the commissioners have "clos'd the boundary line." He describes specific points along the line,...
- 2010-11-17