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Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political
Alexandria, Virginia
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Col. Hawkins reports from Tookaubutchee on September 20, 1811, attending a Creek National Council to prepare for government-ordered roads through Indian lands. Delegations from Choctaw, Cherokee, and Shawnee tribes arrived to discuss property adjustments, land claims with Chickasaws, and express confidence in U.S. government justice, with Cherokees consenting to Tennessee road passage.
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Extract of a letter from Col. Hawkins, the Creek Agent, dated September 20, 1811, to a gentleman of respectability near Columbia.
" I am now at Tookaubutchee, attending on the National Council just convened to prepare the minds for the opening of roads thro' the Indian country in conformity with the orders of government.
A deputation arrived last night, 19-Choctaws, 47 Cherokees, and 16 Shawanees, from the north west, including two or three from tribes unknown to us, for want of interpreters.
The Shawanees were accompanied by a Creek who has resided among them for the last 20 years. A great number of our chiefs are assembled.
" The Cherokees inform me, they have entire confidence in the justice of our government, and so far as the road from Tennessee passes through their land they have given their consent. They heretofore had some doubts relative to the affairs of their nation; but the just conduct of our government has now united them in an unshaken confidence in it: their business here is to adjust some matters relative to property between the Creeks and them, and to meet the Chickasaws in relation to their land claim."
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Tookaubutchee
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September 20, 1811
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cherokees express confidence in u.s. government and consent to tennessee road through their land; delegations to adjust creek-cherokee property matters and meet chickasaws on land claims.
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Col. Hawkins at Creek National Council in Tookaubutchee to prepare for opening roads through Indian country per government orders. Deputation of 19 Choctaws, 47 Cherokees, 16 Shawnees, and others arrived; Shawnees with a long-resident Creek. Numerous chiefs assembled. Cherokees affirm trust in government justice, resolving prior doubts.