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  <titleInfo>
    <title>John Sevier correspondence, 1797-1812</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Sevier, John</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1745-1815</namePart>
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  <abstract>Clerk's copy of a letter (1797 January 12) from Sevier, governor of Tennessee, to Silas Dinsmore, Indian agent, relating to Tennessee boundaries and to the Cherokee Indians; and ALS (1812 May 31) from Sevier to his son, George Washington Sevier, concerning the impending war with Great Britain and British alliances with the Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Creek Indians.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Army officer, U.S. representative from North Carolina and Tennessee, and governor of Tennessee.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note>Forms part of: Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Dinsmore, Silas</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Sevier, George Washington</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Cherokee Indians</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Chickasaw Indians</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Creek Indians</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Indians of North America</topic>
    <topic>Government relations</topic>
    <temporal>1789-1869</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Indians of North America</topic>
    <topic>Government relations</topic>
    <geographic>Great Britain</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Tennessee</geographic>
    <topic>Boundaries</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>War of 1812</temporal>
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    <occupation>Army officers</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Governors</occupation>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Representatives, U.S. Congress</occupation>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Representatives, U.S. Congress</occupation>
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  <identifier type="lccn">mm 79001712</identifier>
  <accessCondition type="restrictionOnAccess">Open to research.</accessCondition>
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