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 p241  Bibliography

Manuscripts

United States Archives, Washington, D. C.

The Indian Office Records are by far the most extensive and the most valuable single source of information on the Southern Indians and are the foundation of this account. The writer used them before they were collected in the Archives and consequently retains in his annotation the classification of that time. The most important part of these records for the present study were the Retired Classified Files consisting chiefly of letters received from Indian agents in the field. The letter books of the secretary of war and of the superintendent of Indian trade give the outgoing letters. The records of the various factories are invaluable for Indian trade.

Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.

Colonial Office Records, British Transcripts.

These have been utilized for the Revolutionary period. The correspondence of Stuart and Browne with the home authorities throws much light on the part of the Indians in the Revolution. Papers of the Continental Congress are utilized for the Revolutionary and Confederation periods.

The Newberry Library, Chicago, Ill.

The Ayer Collection contains the John Howard Payne Papers (Cherokee) and many transcripts from the Archivo Nacional de Cuba, including Indian Trade Documents, 1783‑1821.

 p242  Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin.

The Tennessee Papers of the Draper Manuscripts were useful for the Revolutionary and Confederation period.

Department of Archives and History, Atlanta, Georgia.

The most rewarding of these records are the Creek Indian Letters and Cherokee Indians, Talks and Treaties.

The Lawson McGhee Library, Knoxville, Tennessee.

In addition to a wealth of other material in the McClung Collection the Library contains the Henley Papers and an extensive collection of British Transcripts for the Revolutionary period.

The Filson Club, Louisville, Kentucky.

The Ballard Thurston transcripts of the George Rogers Clark Papers were used for the history of Fort Jefferson and the Virginia-Chickasaw Treaty of 1783.

Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Mississippi.

The Mississippi Provincial Archives, Spanish Dominion, were used for the period 1793‑98. These are Spanish documents drawn from the archives of Spain and Cuba bearing on the history of Mississippi.

Florida Historical Society Library, University of Florida, Gainesville.

The Panton, Leslie and Company Papers consist of the Cruzat and Greenslade Papers. They are largely concerned with domestic matters but have much incidental material on Indian trade.

Alabama Department of Archives and History.

G. S. Gaines. "Reminiscences of Early Times in Mississippi Territory." Gaines was for many years Factor at St. Stephens and had an influential part in enlisting Indian support in the War of 1812.

University of Georgia.

Telamon Cuyler MSS, Indian Affairs, University of Georgia.

Books

Abel, Heloise. The History of Events Resulting in Indian Consolidation West of the Mississippi. The American Historical Association Annual Report, Washington, 1906.

Abernethy, T. P. Western Lands and the American Revolution. New York, 1937.

Alden, J. R. John Stuart and the Southern Colonial Frontier. Ann Arbor, 1944.

 p243  American State Papers, Indian Affairs, 2 vols.; Foreign Relations, 6 vols.; Public Lands, 8 vols., Washington, 1832‑61.

Annals of Congress, 1789‑1824, 42 vols. Washington, 1834‑56.

Bertram, William. Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulgees or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Choctaws, 1773‑1778. Philadelphia, 1791.

Bassett, J. S., ed. The Correspondence of Andrew Jackson. 6 vols. Washington, 1924‑33.

Brown, John P. Old Frontiers. Kingsport, 1938.

Calendar of Virginia State Papers, 1652‑1869. 11 vols. Richmond, 1875‑93.

Candler, Allen D., ed. Colonial Records of Georgia. 26 vols. Atlanta, 1904‑16.

Carter, C. E., ed. Territorial Papers of the United States: Territory South of the River Ohio, and Mississippi Territory. Vols. II, V, and VI. Washington, 1934–––––.

Caughey, J. W. McGillivray of the Creeks. Norman, 1938.

–––––. Bernardo de Gálvez in Louisiana, 1776‑1783. Berkeley, 1934.

Clark, Walter, ed. North Carolina State Records. 15 vols. Winston-Salem, 1895‑96.

Collins, Lewis and Richard. History of Kentucky. Reprint, Louisville, 1924.

Crane, Verner W. The Southern Frontier, 1670‑1732. Durham, 1928.

Cushman, H. B. History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Natchez Indians. Greenville, Texas, 1899.

Debo, Angie. The Road to Disappearance. Norman, 1941.

Eaton, Rachel Caroline. John Ross and the Cherokee Indians. Menasha, Wisconsin, 1914.

Ellicott, Andrew. The Journal of Andrew Ellicott. Philadelphia, 1803.

Esarey, Logan, ed. Messages and Letters of William Henry Harrison. Indiana Historical Collection. Vols. VII and VIII. Indianapolis, 1922.

Ford, W. C., and Gaillard Hunt, eds. Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774‑1789. 27 vols. Washington, 1904‑28.

Foreman, Grant. Sequoyah. Norman, 1937.

Halbert, H. S., and T. H. Ball. The Creek War of 1813 and 1814. Chicago, 1895.

Hamilton, Peter J. Colonial Mobile. Boston, 1910.

Hanna, Charles A. The Wilderness Trail. 2 vols. New York, 1911.

 p244  Hawkins, Benjamin. Letters of Benjamin Hawkins, 1796‑1806. Collections of the Georgia Historical Society. Vol. IX. Savannah, 1916.

–––––. A Sketch of the Creek Country in the Years 1798 and 1799. Publications of the Georgia Historical Society. Vol. III. Americus, Georgia, 1938.

Haywood, John. The Civil and Political History of the State of Tennessee. Nashville, 1915.

Hodge, F. W., ed. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin No. 30. 2 vols. Washington, 1910‑11.

Kappler, Charles J. Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties. 3 vols. Washington, 1892‑1913.

Lester, W. S. The Transylvania Company. Spencer, Indiana, 1935.

McKenney, Thomas L. and James Hall. A History of the Indian Tribes of North America. 3 vols. Philadelphia, 1838‑44.

McLendon, S. G. History of the Public Domain of Georgia. Atlanta, 1924.

Milfort, Louis (Le Clerc). Mémoire ou coup d'œil rapide sur mes différens voyages et mon séjour dans la nation Crëck. Paris, 1802.

Miller, Hunter. Treaties and other International Acts of the United States of North America. 8 vols. Washington, 1931‑48.

Milling, Chapman J. Red Carolinians. Chapel Hill, 1940.

Mooney, James. Myths of the Cherokee. Bureau of American Ethnology Nineteenth Annual Report, Part I. Washington, 1900.

––––– The Siouan Tribes of the East. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin No. 22. Washington, 1894.

Morse, Jedidiah. Report to the Secretary of War on Indian affairs. New Haven, 1822.

Parton, James. Life of Andrew Jackson. 3 vols. New York, 1887‑88.

Pickett, A. J. History of Alabama and Incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi. 2 vols. Birmingham, 1900.

Pope, John. Tour through the Southern States and Western Territories of North America. Richmond, 1792.

Putnam, A. W. History of Middle Tennessee. Nashville, 1859.

Ramsey, J. G. M. The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century. Kingsport, Tennessee, 1926.

Richardson, James D., ed. Messages and Papers of the President, 1789‑1897. 10 vols. Washington, 1896‑99.

Roosevelt, Theodore. Winning of the West. New York, 1889.

 p245  Rowland, Dunbar, ed. Mississippi Provincial Archives, English Dominion. Nashville, 1911.

–––––, ed. The Mississippi Territorial Archives, 1798‑1803. Nashville, 1905.

–––––, ed. Official Letter Books of W. C. C. Claiborne, 1801‑1816. 6 vols. (Mississippi Department of Archives and History.) Jackson, 1917.

–––––, and A. G. Sanders, eds. Mississippi Provincial Archives, French Dominion. 3 vols. (Mississippi Department of Archives and History.) Jackson, 1927‑32.

Rowland, Mrs. Dunbar. Andrew Jackson's Campaign against the British or the Mississippi Territory in the War of 1812. New York, 1926.

Royce, Charles C. Indian Land Cessions in the United States. Bureau of American Ethnology Eighteenth Annual Report, Part II. Washington 1889.

–––––. The Cherokee Nation of Indians. Bureau of American Ethnology Fifth Annual Report. Washington, 1887.

Saunders, William L., ed. The Colonial Records of North Carolina. 10 vols. Raleigh, North Carolina, 1886‑90.

Schoolcraft, Henry R. Historical and Statistical Information Regarding the History, Condition and the Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States. 6 vols. Philadelphia, 1851‑57.

Serrano y Sanz, Manuel. España y Los Indios Cherokis y Chactas en la Segunda Mitad del Siglo XVIII. Seville, 1916.

Shaw, Helen Louise. British Administration of the Southern Indians, 1756‑1783. Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1931.

Smith, W. H., ed. The St. Clair Papers. 2 vols. Cincinnati, 1882.

Starkey, Marion L. The Cherokee Nation. New York, 1946.

Swanton, John R. Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin No. 73. Washington, 1922.

–––––. Source Material for the Social and Ceremonial Life of the Choctaw Indians. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin No. 103. Washington, 1931.

–––––. Social Organization and Social Usages of the Indians of the Creek Confederacy. Bureau of American Ethnology Forty-second Anual Report. Washington, 1928.

–––––. Indian Tribes of the Lower Mississippi Valley and Adjacent  p246 Coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin No. 43. Washington, 1911.

–––––. Social Beliefs and Usages of the Cherokee Indians. Bureau of American Ethnology Forty-fourth Annual Report. Washington, 1928.

Thomas, Cyrus. The Cherokees in Pre-Columbian Times. New York, 1890.

U. S. Supreme Court. Report of Cases Argued and Adjudged . . . . 12 Wheaton, Harcourt v. Gaillard, 716.

Walker, R. S. Torchlight to the Cherokees. New York, 1932.

Whitaker, A. P. Spanish-American Frontier, 1783‑1795. Boston, 1927.

Willett, William Marinus. A Narrative of the Military Activities of Colonel Marinus Willett. New York, 1831.

Williams, Samuel C. Beginnings of West Tennessee in the Land of the Chickasaws, 1541‑1841. Johnson City, Tennessee, 1930.

–––––. The Lost State of Franklin. New York, 1933.

–––––. Dawn of Tennessee Valley and Tennessee History. Johnson City, Tennessee, 1939.

–––––, ed. Early Travels in the Tennessee Country, 1541‑1800. Johnson City, Tennessee, 1928.

–––––, ed. Adair's History of the American Indians. Johnson City, Tennessee, 1930.

Woodward, Thomas S. Reminiscences of the Creek or Muscogee Indians. Reprint, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1929.

Wright, Muriel H. A Guide to the Indian Tribes of Oklahoma. Norman, 1951.

Articles

Beckner, Lucien. "Eskippakithiki: The Last Indian Town in Kentucky," The Filson Club History Quarterly, vol. VI, 355‑82.

Burnett, E. C., ed. "Documents Relating to Bourbon County, Georgia, 1785‑1786," American Historical Review, Vol. XV, 66‑111, 297‑353.

Caughey, J. W., "Willing's Expedition down the Mississippi," Louisiana Historical Quarterly, Vol. XV, 5‑36.

Corbitt, D. C. "James Colbert and the Spanish Claim to the East Bank of the Mississippi," Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. XXIV, 457‑72.

–––––, ed. and trans. "Papers Relating to the Georgia-Florida Frontier, 1784‑1800," Georgia Historical Quarterly, Vols. XX‑XXV.

 p247  –––––, and Roberta, eds. "Papers from the Spanish Archives Relating to Tennessee and the Old Southwest," East Tennessee Historical Society Publications, Vols. IX‑XXIII.

––––– and Lanning, J. T. "A Letter of Marque Issued by William Augustus Bowles as Director-General of the State of Muscogee," Journal of Southern History, Vol. XI, 246‑61.

Cotterill, R. S. "The Virginia-Chickasaw Treaty of 1783," Journal of Southern History, Vol. VII, 483‑96.

–––––. "A Chapter of Panton, Leslie and Company," Journal of Southern History, Vol. X, 275‑92.

Cox, I. J., ed. "Documents Relating to Zachariah Cox," Quarterly Publication of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio, Vol. VIII, 31‑114.

Crane, Verner W. "The Origin of the Name of the Creek Indians," Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. V, 339‑42.

––––– "The Southern Frontier in Queen Anne's War," American Historical Review, Vol. XXIV, 379‑95.

Cruzat, Heloise H. trans. "Journal of an Indian Talk," Florida Historical Society Quarterly, Vol. VIII, 131‑42.

Downes, R. C. "Creek-American Relations, 1782‑1790," Georgia Historical Society Quarterly, Vol. XXI, 142‑84.

Franklin, Neil. "Virginia and the Cherokee Indian Trade, 1673‑1752," East Tennessee Historical Society Publications, Vol. IV, 3‑21.

Goodpasture, A. V. "Indian Wars and Warriors of the Old Southwest, 1720‑1807," Tennessee Historical Magazine, Vol. IV, 3‑49, 106‑11.

Green, F. M. "Georgia's Forgotten Industry: Gold Mining," Georgia Historical Quarterly, Vol. XIX, 93‑111, 210‑28.

Greenslade, Mrs J. W., transcriber, "A Journal of John Forbes," Florida Historical Society Quarterly, Vol. IX, 279‑89.

Griffin, James B. "On the Historical Location of the Totero and the Mohetan in the Ohio Valley," American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. XLIV, 275‑80.

Halbert, Henry S. "Nanih Waiya, the Sacred Mount of the Choctaws," Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Vol. II, 228‑34.

–––––. "Funeral Customs of the Mississippi Choctaws," Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Vol. III, 353‑66.

–––––. "The Choctaw Creation Legend," Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Vol. IV, 267‑70.

 p248  –––––. "District Divisions of the Choctaw Nation," Publications of the Alabama Historical Society, Miscellaneous Collection, Vol. I, 375‑85.

Hamer, P. M. "The Wataugans and the Cherokee Indians in 1776," East Tennessee Historical Society Publications, Vol. III, 108‑26.

–––––. "John Stuart's Indian Policy During the Early Months of the American Revolution," Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. XVII (December, 1930), 351‑67.

–––––. "The British in Canada and the Southern Indians," East Tennessee Historical Society Publications, Vol. II, 107‑34.

–––––, ed. "Letters of William Blount," East Tennessee Historical Society Publications, Vol. IV, 122‑33.

Haskins, C. H. "The Yazoo Land Companies," Papers of the American Historical Association, Vol. V, 394‑437.

Henderson, Archibald. "The Treaty of Long Island of Holston, July, 1777," North Carolina Historical Review, Vol. VIII, 55‑116.

Kinnaird, Lawrence. "The Significance of William Augustus Bowles' Seizure of Panton's Apalachee Store in 1792," Florida Historical Society Quarterly, Vol. IX, 156‑92.

–––––. "International Rivalry in the Creek Country," Florida Historical Society Quarterly, Vol. X, 59‑85.

Leftwich, G. J. "Cotton Gin Port and Gaines' Trace," Mississippi Historical Society Publications, Vol. VII, 263‑70.

Linecum, Gideon, "Life of Apushimataha," Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Vol. IX, 415‑85.

Love, W. A. "The Mayhew Mission to the Choctaws," Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Vol. XI, 363‑402.

–––––. "General Jackson's Military Road," Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Vol. XI, 403‑17.

McMurry, Donald L. "The Indian Policy of the Federal Government and the Economic Development of the Southwest, 1789‑1801," Tennessee Historical Magazine, Vol. I, 21‑39 and 106‑19.

Myer, W. E. "Indian Trails of the Southeast," Bureau of American Ethnology Forty-second Annual Report, 1928, pp727‑857.

Parish, J. C. "The Intrigues of Dr. James O'Fallon," Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. XVII, 230‑63.

Pound, Merret B. "Colonel Benjamin Hawkins of North Carolina, Benefactor of the Southern Indians," North Carolina Historical Review, Vol. XIX, 1‑21, 168‑86.

 p249  Robertson, James. "Correspondence of James Robertson," American Historical Magazine, Vol. IV, 89‑94.

Storm, Colton, ed. "Up the Tennessee in 1790: The Report of Major John Doughty to the Secretary of War," The East Tennessee Historical Society Publications, Vol. XVII, 119‑32.

Street, Oliver D. "Houston County in the Great Bend of the Tennessee," Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. VI, 50‑59.

–––––. "Cherokee Towns and Villages in Alabama," Publications of the Alabama Historical Society, Vol. I, 416‑21.

Swan, Caleb. "Position and State of Manners and Arts in the Creek or Muscogee Nation in 1791," H. R. Schoolcraft, Indian Tribes, Vol. V, 251‑83, q.v.

Swanton, John R. "Siouan Tribes in the Ohio Valley," American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. XLV, 49‑66.

–––––. "Aboriginal Culture of the Southeast," Bureau of American Ethnology Forty-second Annual Report, (1928), pp673‑728.

Thompson, Isabel. "The Blount Conspiracy," East Tennessee Historical Society Publications, Vol. II, 3‑21.

Turner, F. J., ed. "Documents on the Blount Conspiracy, 1795‑1797," American Historical Review, Vol. X, 574‑606.

Warren, Harry. "Some Chickasaw Chiefs and Prominent Men," Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Vol. VIII, 555‑70.

Weeks, S. B. "General Joseph Martin and the War of the Revolution in the West," American Historical Association Annual Report (1893), pp401‑27.

Whitaker, A. P. "Alexander McGillivray, 1783‑1789," North Carolina Historical Review, Vol. V, 181‑203, 289‑309.

–––––. "The Muscle Shoals Speculation, 1783‑1789," Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. XIII, 365‑86.

–––––. "Spain and the Cherokee Indians, 1783‑1796," North Carolina Historical Review, Vol. IV, 85‑98, 252‑69.

White, Kate. "John Chisholm, a Soldier of Fortune," East Tennessee Historical Society Publications, Vol. I, 60‑66.

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