TY  - GEN
AU  - Meigs,Return Jonathan
AU  - Meigs,Return Jonathan
AU  - Meigs,Return J.
TI  - Meigs family papers,
KW  - Pickens, Andrew,
KW  - Meigs family.
KW  - United States
KW  - Postmaster General
KW  - Cherokee Indians
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - Alabama
KW  - Mississippi
KW  - Practice of law
KW  - Tennessee
KW  - Ohio
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - History
KW  - Revolution, 1775-1783
KW  - Attorneys general
KW  - itoamc
KW  - Cabinet officers
KW  - Governors
KW  - Indian agents
KW  - Lawyers
N1  - Microfilm edition excludes the letter from Return Jonathan Meigs (1740-1823) to Andrew Pickens; Open to research; Microfilm edition available; no. 17,052; Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division; Washington, D.C.; Library of Congress Photoduplication Service; 1977
N2  - 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
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