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    <title>Meigs family papers, 1772-1862</title>
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  <abstract>Chiefly correspondence of Return Jonathan Meigs (1740-1823) relating principally to his activities as Indian agent to the Cherokees (1801-1823), with a few letters (1772-1774) concerning his Revolutionary War service.  Includes a letter (1804 Dec. 10) from Meigs to Andrew Pickens relating to Cherokee lands.  Papers of Meigs's son, Return Jonathan Meigs (1764-1825), relate to his tenure as governor of Ohio (1810-1814) and include a letterbook (1820-1821) while he served as U.S. Postmaster General.  Papers of Return Jonathan Meigs (1801-1891), lawyer and attorney general of Tennessee, concern the removal of Indians from Alabama and the Mississippi Territory from 1831 to 1834.</abstract>
  <note>Microfilm edition excludes the letter from Return Jonathan Meigs (1740-1823) to Andrew Pickens.</note>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition available, no. 17,052.</note>
  <note>Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1977.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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      <namePart>Pickens, Andrew</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1739-1817</namePart>
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      <namePart>Meigs family</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Postmaster General.</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Cherokee Indians</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Indians of North America</topic>
    <geographic>Alabama</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Indians of North America</topic>
    <geographic>Mississippi</geographic>
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    <topic>Practice of law</topic>
    <geographic>Tennessee</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Ohio</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Revolution, 1775-1783</temporal>
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    <occupation>Attorneys general</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Cabinet officers</occupation>
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    <occupation>Governors</occupation>
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    <occupation>Indian agents</occupation>
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