Letter signed S. Pleasonton, Treasury Department, Fifth Auditor’s Office, to Reuben Lewis, Cherokee agent at Arkansas. “I have received your Report of the depredations committed by the Cherokee Nation of Indians, on the property of citizens of the United States residing on the River Arkansas, in which you estimate the amount of damages at four hundred and twenty five dollars. The Report together with all the accompanying vouchers, I have referred to William Lee, Esquire, the second Auditor of the Treasury, to whom the settlement of your account is properly referable.” (1 page), 1820 June 10

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 14

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Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Meriwether Lewis Papers is an artificial, or subject-based, collection gathered to record the Lewis and Clark Expedition. During the re-processing of the Meriwether Lewis Collection in 1999, several items were removed from the collection and returned to the archival collection in which they originally belonged. (Please consult the separation record at the end of this finding aid.)

Dates

1820 June 10

Conditions Governing Access

The Missouri Historical Society asks researchers to assist in the preservation of the collection by using either the microfilm or the published versions of documents at all times. Permission to access the original documents in the Meriwether Lewis Papers must be obtained from a member of the archives staff.