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General John Van Fossen [Addressed and endorsed] : "Cantonment Gibson, 23d August." "General John Van Fossen, Hemlock Lake, New York, Mail." [Certification] : We do hereby certify, that the foregoing is a true and exact copy of a letter, with the endorsemrnt thereon, which was delivered to us, enclosed in a communication in writ- ing from Samuel Houston, excepting certain parts of the same letter omitted in said copy at the places marked with asterisks [dots], which we consider as wholly irrevelant to the subjects of ~.ny contract whatever for the supplying rations for emigrating Indians. And we have marked this copy B.
James M. Wayne. John Leeds Kerr.
1 Reports of Committees, House of Representatives, 22d Cong., 1st Sess., Vol. V, Doc. 502. Grant Foreman, Pioneer Days in the Early Southwest, 189-191. 2 General George Gibson was born in Pennsylvania and entered the United States Army from his native State. He rose gradually in rank, and was made captain, May 3, 1808, major of the Seventh Infantry on November 9, 1811; lieutenant colonel on August 15, 1813; was honorably discharged, June 15, 1815; rose to colonel in the Quarter Master General's Department, April 29, 1816; Colonel of the Commissary General's Department on April 18, 1818; breveted brigadier general on April 29, 1826; and was raised to major general on May 30, 1848. He died September 29, 1861. Fort Gibson, which was named for him, was established by orders of the War Department for. the purpose of giving protection to traders between Missouri and Santa Fe. This fort was located on the east bank of the Grand River, three miles from the mouth, three or four miles from the Verdigris River, and an equal distance from Chouteau's trading post. See Ame:-rican State Papers, Indian Affafrs, II, 456. Grant Foreman, P-ioneer Days in the Early Southwest, 64. Heitman, Historical Register ancl Dictionary of the United States A1·my, 453.
To WILLIAM HALL 1 Cherokee Nation, Wigwam Neosho, 7th Dec 1830
To Gen Wm Hall,: Sir, When I resigned into your hands, the office of chief mag- .istrate of the State of Tennessee; I could not have supposed, that any act of yours or association·of your name, would be such, as to render it necessary for me; in vindication of my feelings, and character to address you :- but I now feel, that such a course is proper, and necessary! Soon after my departure from Nash- ville, in the month of May last, the publication of a "Report 3 from
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