Papers, 1775-1843 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Personal, legal, political, and military papers. A number of letters are concerned with supplies for the militia, orders for troop movements, preventing a landing in Georgia of blacks from the West Indies, and trouble with the Indians. Political correspondence includes Jackson's announcement in 1795 of his candidacy for the state legislature; a letter explaining his refusal to accept the governorship of Georgia in 1788; a copy of the Yazoo Land Act of 1795; a letter referring to attempts to connect Jackson with the sale of western lands, and the testimony of John Guthrie showing the means used in securing passage of the act; and a letter from Abraham Baldwin concerning negotiations to settle Georgia's western boundaries