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  <titleInfo>
    <title>William Blount papers, 1783-1823</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Blount, William</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1749-1800</namePart>
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  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
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  <abstract>Correspondence and documents relating to Blount's activities as a speculator in the Old Southwest from the 1780s to the period following the Blount conspiracy of 1797 and to his career as governor of the Tennessee territory and superintendent of the U.S. Southern Indian Dept. (1790-1796) and as U.S. senator from Tennessee (1796-1797).  Includes papers (1803-1823) of Thomas and Willie Blount and Pleasant Moorman Miller.  Correspondents include David Allison, Thomas Hart, Benjamin Hawkins, Robert Hays, John Haywood, James S. Holland, Andrew Jackson, Wyly Martin, Andrew Pickens, James Robertson, John Sevier, John Steele, and Hugh Williamson.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition available, no. 19,142.</note>
  <note>Microfilm from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1985.</note>
  <note>Delegate to the Continental Congress from North Carolina, U.S. senator from and governor of Tennessee, and superintendent of the U.S. Southern Indian Dept.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Allison, David</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hart, Thomas</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">-1808</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hawkins, Benjamin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1754-1816</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hays, Robert</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Haywood, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1762-1826</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Holland, James</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1754-1823</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Jackson, Andrew</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1767-1845</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Martin, Wyly</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Pickens, Andrew</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1739-1817</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Robertson, James</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1742-1814</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Sevier, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1745-1815</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Steele, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1764-1815</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Williamson, Hugh</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1735-1819</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Southern Indian Department.</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Indians of North America</topic>
    <topic>Government relations</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Land speculation</topic>
    <geographic>Southwest, Old</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Tennessee</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>To 1865</temporal>
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    <occupation>Delegates, U.S. Continental Congress</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Governors</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Indian agents</occupation>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Senators, U.S. Congress</occupation>
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      <title>Thomas Blount papers</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Blount, Thomas,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1759-1812</namePart>
    </name>
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    <titleInfo>
      <title>Willie Blount papers</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Blount, Willie,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1768-1835</namePart>
    </name>
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  <relatedItem>
    <titleInfo>
      <title>Pleasant Moorman Miller papers</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Miller, Pleasant Moorman,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">-1849</namePart>
    </name>
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