FLORIDA INDIANS. LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF WAR, TRANSMITTING A REPORT, MADE BY THE AGENT OF INDIAN AFFAIRS IN FLORIDA, IN RELATION TO THE WISH OF THOSE INDIANS TO SEND A DEPUTATION TO EXAMINE THE COUNTRY WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI

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Washington:: Gales & Seaton,. 1828.. 3 pp. . First edition. 20th Congress, 2d Session, House Doc. No. 31. Original self-wraps, removed from bound volume. A very good copy. These first timid steps mark the beginning of Seminole migration out of Florida. Offered together with: MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES IN RELATION TO THE CONDITION THE SEMINOLE INDIANS, WHO HAVE EMIGRATED. (Washington, 1839). 3 pp. First edition. 25th Congress, 3d Session, Senate Doc. No. 88. Original self-wraps, removed from bound volume. A very good copy. "It is now ascertained that the Seminoles who have been carried west are, to the number of 2,000 and upwards, still on the south bank of the Arkansas river, about two miles below Fort Gibson, where they have been since their removal." A nice pairing of two documents, printed over ten years apart, that bookend Seminole migration. .

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