National Banner and Nashville Whig - June 20, 1836
Tennessee Cherokee Lands
A bill has passed the Senate of Tennessee, by a vote of 28 to 2, providing for the disposition of the unappropriated lands in that State, acquired from the Cherokee Indians by the late treaty between the General Government and that tribe.
These lands lie in the counties of Hamilton, Bradley, Meigs, and Marion and according to the provisions of the bill, are to be disposed of by duty of the entry-taker's office to be kept at Cleveland, in the county of Bradley.
The office is to be opened on the first Monday in November, 1838, and for the first four months the land is to be entered at $10 per acre; and during the next three months of this period the actual settler (at the time of the passage of this act,) has a preference of entry. Every two months afterwards a reduction takes place in the price, and or the first month after the reduction, the settler has the same preference.
The graduation established by the bill is as follows:
the first four months $10 per acre
Next two months $5
Next two months $1
Next two months 50 cents
Next two months 25 cents
Next two months 12 ½ cents
Last two months 1 cent
Baltimore American
Daily Commercial Bulletin and Missouri Literary Register - November 18, 1837
Cherokees
We understand (says the Alexandria Gazette,) that, at the
request of the War Department, General Scott has postponed his visit to the
North until the emigration of the Cherokees in September has been completed.
The Hamilton Gazette, printed at Ross’s Landing, in
Tennessee states, that—
“The collection of the Indians commenced on the 25th
of May last, under the direction of Major General Scott, and, at the present
time, all the Indians are collected at the different depots -- about 8,000 at the Cherokee agency – 2,000 at
this place – 1,500 at a new camp, twelve miles from this agency – and 800 at
Fort Pyne, Alabama.
These numbers comprise all the Indians in the territorial
limits of the nation, with the exception of a few who have pledged their words
to come in in proper time.
“The whole number of Indians in the nation on the 23rd
of May was estimated at 16,000; out of this number about 2,600 were dispatched
by the superintendent, by water, to their new homes in the West, during the
month of June. They are divided into
three parties.
The first, consisting of 950, started about the 15th
of June, under the following officers:
Lieut. Davis, U.S. Artillery, Conductor; Messrs. Reeves, Walder, and
Cox, assistants. Messr. Oates and
Folger, Physicians.
The second party of 800 started about the 10th of
June, under the following officers: Lieut.
Whitely, U.S. Artillery, Conductor; Messrs. John Hooke and P. Price,
assistants; Messrs. Hodson and Morrow, physicians.
The third party, consisting of 1,070, started about 16th
of June, in wagons, for Waterloo, Alabama, where they were to be embarked in
boats. The officers in charge of the
party are Henry Bateman, conductor; Messrs. Goody and Standifer, assistants;
Messrs. Hoyle and Willoughby, physicians.
“We understand the first party mentioned reached the Western
Nation in twenty days, without the loss of a life.
The second party is presumed to be near the borders of the
Western Nation; and the third party has, perhaps, by this time reached the
Mississippi River.
“On account of the season, General Scott, on the 18th
of June, suspended the emigration until the 1st of September next at
which time vigorous operations will be commenced; in the mean time nothing
will be done except to subsist the Indians at different depots.”
Daily National Intelligencer – August 18, 1838
Cherokee Agency
(From the Cassville Pioneer, May 26
- From our Correspondent.)
Cherokee Agency, East, May 18, 1838
A letter was received here this morning from Washington
City, signed by Edward Gunter, stating that Mr. Ross’ proposition to the War Department,
to remove the Cherokees himself to their new homes, had been allowed by the
Secretary of War.
It is generally known that Mr. Ross’ proposition was, to
remove the Cherokees within two years from the 23rd of May.
The letter goes on further to state, that in the general
arrangements and stipulations in the proposition, has been agreed upon by both
parties, and that they would be ratified the next day in full.
The effect of such a communication upon the Cherokees is now
easily perceivable. But one feeling
seems to exist, which is a general murmur of honor and glory to John Ross. The intelligence is generally doubted by the
whites; but owning to the responsibility of the author, it is held by the
Cherokees to be as true as revelation.
To the politeness of our correspondent, we are indebted for
the following:
Orders No. 25
Head Quarters, Eastern Division
Cherokee Agency, Tennessee, May 17, 1838
Major General Scott, of the United States’ Army, announces
to the troops assembled and assembling in this country, that, with them, he has
been charged by the President to cause the Cherokee Indians yet remaining in
North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama, to remove to the West,
according to the Treaty of 1835.
His Staff will be as follows:
Lieutenant Colonel W. J. Worth, acting Adjutant General,
Chief of Staff.
Major M. M. Paynbe, acting Inspector General
Lieutenants R. Anderson, and E. D. Keyes, regular Aids de
camp.
Any order given orally, or in writing by either of those
officers, in the name of the Major General, will be respected and obeyed as if
given by himself.
The Chiefs of Ordnance, of the Quarter Master’s Department
and the Commissarist, as also the Medical Director of this Army, will, as soon
as they can be ascertained, be announced in orders.
To carry out the general object with the greatest
promptitude and certainty, and with the least possible distress to the Indians,
the country they are to evacuate is divided into three principal Military
Districts, under as many officers of high rank, to command the troops serving
therein, subject to the instruction of the Major General.
Eastern Division to be commanded by Brigadier General
Eastis, of the U. States’ Army, or the highest officer in rank serving
therein: North Carolina, the part of
Tennessee lying North of Gilmer County, Georgia, and the county of Gilmer,
Union, and Lumpkin, in Georgia. Head
Quarters, in the first instance, say, at Fort Butler.
Western Division to be commanded by Col. Lindsay of the U.
S. Army, or the highest officer in rank serving therein: Alabama, the residue of Tennessee, and Dade
County, in Georgia. Head Quarters, in
the first instance, say. Ross’ Landing.
Middle District to be commanded by Brigadier General
Armistead, of the United States Army, or the highest officer in rank, serving
therein: And all that part of the
Cherokee Country, lying within the State of Georgia, and which is not comprised
in the two other districts. Head
Quarters, in the first instance, say at New Echota.
It is not intended that the foregoing boundaries between the
principal commanders, shall be strictly observed. Either, when carried near the district of
another, will not hesitate to extend his operations, according to the
necessities of the case, but with all practicable harmony, into the adjoining
district.
And, among his principal objects, in case of actual or
apprehended hostilities, will be that of affording adequate protection to our
white people in and around the Cherokee Country.
Richmond Enquirer – June 15, 1838
Cherokee Emigration 
From the Hamilton (Tennessee) Gaz., August 9.
The conference between General Scot and the Cherokee Council is at length ended. The Chiefs of the Nation have undertaken the transportation of the remainder of the people to their new homes. It is now a national movement on the part of the Indians, and for the first time there is something like a unanimity of feeling and concurrence of the whole tribe.
They have agreed, on their part, to finish all the subsistence and means of transportation that may be necessary to render the Indians comfortable on their journey to the West, and to commerce the removal by the 1st of September, in detachments of about one thousand each, and, after the departure of the first,
to have every consecutive detachment to start in a very few days.
It is computed that all the Indians can be removed in twelve detachments, and that the last will leave by the 20th of October.
General Scott, on the part of the Government, has agreed to allow sixty-five dollars per head for removal, and furnish in advance one-half of the amount.
Each detachment will be conducted exclusively by their own people, accompanied by one or two physicians, who will, we suppose, receive their appointments from General Scott, with the concurrence of the Chiefs.
Until the departure of each detachment, the Indians are to be subsisted by the Government.
Philadelphia Inquirer - August 24, 1838