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Photographer: Sandra Hughes
Taken: September 25, 2010
Caption: Purchase of the Hermitage
Additional Description: One year after buying the Hermitage, Jackson was still trying to collect cash payment on his former farm so he could pay his creditors. …Next week I must have money, and should I not receive it from you will be compelled to bring your Bond into market and rise what money on it I can to meet my pressing demands. This will be truly disagreeable to me and I have no doubt unpleasant to you. But my engagements I must meet, this was the object of my sale of my possessions- and from that sale, I must realize that object. -Andrew Jackson to Edward Ward, June 10, 1805 Andrew Jackson came to Tennessee in 1788 as the public prosecutor for the state of North Carolina’s Mero District, the area that now includes Davidson and surrounding counties. This early map of the state identifies central Tennessee as the Mero District and southwestern Tennessee as the home of the Chickasaw and Cherokee Indians.
Submitted: February 9, 2012, by Sandra Hughes Tidwell of Killen, Alabama, USA.
Database Locator Identification Number: p192195
File Size: 0.160 Megabytes

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