[Footnote 272: May 30, 1820.] [Footnote 273: Letter of Secretary of War to Attorney-General, July, 26, 1820.] [Footnote 274: August 12, 1820.] [Footnote 275: August 14, 1820.] [Footnote 276: March 7, 1821.] [Footnote 277: American State Papers, Public Lands, Vol. I, p. 125.] [Footnote 278: January 7, 1822.] [Footnote 279: June 15, 1822.] [Footnote 280: August 24, 1822.] [Footnote 281: November 19, 1822.] [Footnote 282: March 17, 1823.] [Footnote 283: February, 1823.] [Footnote 284: March 17, 1823.] [Footnote 285: Report of commissioners on file in Office Indian Affairs.] [Footnote 286: See correspondence between commissioners and Cherokee council. American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. II, pp. 465-473.] [Footnote 287: October 28, 1823.] [Footnote 288: January 19, 1824. This memorial is signed by John Ross, George Lowrey, Major Ridge, and Elijah Hicks, as the Cherokee delegation.] [Footnote 289: January 30, 1824.] [Footnote 290: February 17, 1824.] [Footnote 291: February 28, 1824.] [Footnote 292: Letter of Georgia delegation to Congress, March 10, 1824. Memorial of Georgia legislature to Congress, December 18, 1823.] [Footnote 293: March 30, 1824.] [Footnote 294: March 29, 1824.] [Footnote 295: This Creek war was in large measure, if not wholly, superinduced by the unlawful and unjust aggressions by citizens of that State upon the rights and territory of the Creeks. Foreign emissaries, however, it is true, encouraged and inflamed the just indignation of the Creeks against the Georgians to the point of armed resistance.] [Footnote 296: May 3, 1824.] [Footnote 297: April 16, 1824.] [Footnote 298: April 24, 1824.] [Footnote 299: February 5, 1827.] [Footnote 300: Letter of Rev. David Brown to Thomas L. McKenney, December 13, 1825.] [Footnote 301: United States Statutes at Large, Vol. IV, p. 217.] [Footnote 302: March 13, 1827.] [Footnote 303: June 4, 1828.] [Footnote 304: January 26, 1828.] [Footnote 305: March 20, 1828.] [Footnote 306: April 20, 1820.] [Footnote 307: Letter of Governor Miller, of Arkansas, to Secretary of War, June 20, 1820.] [Footnote 308: Letter of Secretary of War to Maj. William Bradford, July 21, 1821.] [Footnote 309: Letter of Secretary of War to Governor Miller, of Arkansas, November 6, 1822.] [Footnote 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.] [Footnote 311: Secretary of War to Arkansas Cherokee delegation in Washington, February 12, 1823.] [Footnote 312: March 3, 1824.] [Footnote 313: Indian Office to Cherokee delegation of Arkansas, March 13, 1824, and Secretary of War to Governor Crittenden, of Arkansas, April 28, 1824.] [Footnote 314: Secretary of War to Governor Crittenden, of Arkansas, April 28, 1824.]