MEMORIAL OF THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, RELATIVE TO THE PURCHASE OF CERTAIN INDIAN TERRITORY...
1824 · Washington
by [Mississippi
Washington: Gales & Seaton, 1824. [3]pp. Dbd. Minute edge wear. Small one-inch tear near head of spine. Very good. An impassioned petition from Cowles Mead of the Mississippi legislature, imploring Congress to affirm its claim to land opposite the Tombigbee River. In the memorial Mead challenges Alabama's claim to the land and argues that the territory might be more appealing if it were enlarged through two proposed purchases of land from the Chickasaw Indians. Scarce (Inventory #: WRCAM31617)