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Photographer: National Archives and Records Administration
Caption: Marker detail: November 16, 1837 Receipt
Additional Description: 9½ bushels of meal for subsistence of a detachment of Cherokees at 76 cents per bushel November 16, 1837.

Some Cherokee voluntarily removed to Indian Territory before 1838. B. B. Cannon led one such detachment of Cherokee in 1837. This receipt shows they passed through Jackson on November 16, 1837 and made a purchase from A. H. Brevard.
Submitted: November 26, 2023, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p762281
File Size: 2.085 Megabytes

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