298. April 24, 1824.
299. February 5, 1827.
300. Letter of Rev. David Brown to Thomas L. McKenney, December 13, 1825.
301. United States Statutes at Large, Vol. IV, p. 217.
302. March 13, 1827.
303. June 4, 1828.
304. January 26, 1828.
305. March 20, 1828.
306. April 20, 1820.
307. Letter of Governor Miller, of Arkansas, to Secretary of War, June 20, 1820.
308. Letter of Secretary of War to Maj. William Bradford, July 21, 1821.
309. Letter of Secretary of War to Governor Miller, of Arkansas, November 6, 1822.
310. October 8, 1821, Governor Miller was instructed by the Secretary of War to remove the Cherokees from lands south of the Arkansas, but its execution was deferred several years pending the establishment of the Cherokee boundaries.
311. Secretary of War to Arkansas Cherokee delegation in Washington, February 12, 1823.
312. March 3, 1824.
313. Indian Office to Cherokee delegation of Arkansas, March 13, 1824, and Secretary of War to Governor Crittenden, of Arkansas, April 28, 1824.
314. Secretary of War to Governor Crittenden, of Arkansas, April 28, 1824.
315. Indian Office to Agent E. W. Duval, Little Rock, Arkansas, July 8, 1824.
316. July 8, 1824.
317. Secretary of War to Governor Izard, of Arkansas, April 16, 1825.
318. See map on file in Indian Office.
319. May, 1825.
320. In a letter from Agent Meigs to the Secretary of War, dated June 2, 1817, Major Lovely is spoken of as having been agent residing with the Cherokees on the Arkansas. He had been an officer of the Virginia line throughout the Revolution and participated in the capture of Burgoyne. He had lived some time in the family of President Madison's father, and went to Tennessee at an early day, whence (after living many years among the Cherokees) he removed with the emigrant party to the Arkansas. In a letter to the Hon. John Cocke from the Secretary of War, December 15, 1826, it is, however, stated that Major Lovely was a factor or trader in the Arkansas country, who took an active part in the preliminary negotiations that led finally to the conclusion of the treaty with the Osages of September 25, 1818. It also appears from the same letter that the estimated area of Lovely's purchase was 7,392,000 acres, and that when the west boundary line of the Cherokees was run, in 1825, it was found that 200 square miles of Lovely's purchase were included within its limits.
321. Secretary of War to Arkansas Cherokee delegation in Washington, February 12, 1823.
322. Secretary of War to Arkansas Cherokee delegation in Washington, October 8, 1821.
323. United States Statutes at Large, Vol. IV, p. 153.
324. United States Statutes at Large, Vol. IV, p. 40.
325. April 3, 1827.
326. Letter of T. L. McKenney to Secretary of War, March 18, 1828.
327. March 27, 1828.
328. April 11, 1828.
329. The areas here given by the State authorities were largely below the quantity actually contained within the limits of the cessions within the States of Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee, as will be seen by a glance at the table of such areas on page 378.
330. United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 311.
331. Letter of Secretary of War to Western Cherokee delegation. May 17, 1828.
332. Letter of Sub-Agent Brearly to Secretary of War, September 27, 1828.
333. May 28, 1828.
334. Letter of T. L. McKenney to Secretary of War, January 21, 1830.
335. United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 414.
336. United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 286.
337. See Creek treaty of 1833, United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 417.
338. United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 311.
339. See preamble to Creek treaty of February 14,