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Daniel Parker papers
A large portion of the papers is official correspondence of the War Department in which Daniel Parker was adjutant and inspector general, 1810-1845. There are letters of: Thomas Jefferson, 1803-1808; James Madison, 1808-1814; James Monroe, 1811-1819; Andrew Jackson, 1803-1818; William Henry Harriso...
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| Collection: | Daniel Parker Papers |
| Collection Number: | 0466 |
| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: | Link to finding aid |
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A large portion of the papers is official correspondence of the War Department in which Daniel Parker was adjutant and inspector general, 1810-1845. There are letters of: Thomas Jefferson, 1803-1808; James Madison, 1808-1814; James Monroe, 1811-1819; Andrew Jackson, 1803-1818; William Henry Harrison, 1802-1813; General John Armstrong, 1812-1842; H. Dearborn, 1803-1819; William Eustis, 1809-1822; George Izard, 1813-1817; Thomas Johnson, 1808; Winfield Scott, 1807-1821; James Wilkinson, 1801-1820; and others. Included are: Governor John Drayton to Thomas Jefferson, 1802, on the landing of French blacks on the southern coasts of the Union; petitions of Indian tribes to Thomas Jefferson, 1804-1808; Jefferson's letters to Indian chiefs, 1805-1808; Andrew Jackson letters, 1804-1818, on Indian depredations on the Tennessee River, Mobile Creek warfare; Captain Meriwether Lewis' report to Jefferson on western territories, 1803; letters of W.C.C. Claireborne and of other noted persons concerned in the affairs of Louisiana, the Floridas, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Kentucky, Tennessee, 1801-1821; survey of the head of Muscle Shoals, Tennessee River, east of the Chickasaw nation, 1818; letter of James Wilkinson to Thomas Jefferson, 1806, denouncing Aaron Burr as a conspirator and a traitor, and discussing means of defense of New Orleans; Stephen Decatur's reports on the condition of the Chesapeake after the battle with the Leopard, 1807; papers on war agitation, embargoes, and military preparedness against England, 1806-1812.
Material on the War of 1812 in the voluminous official papers, 1812-1815; letters of William Eustis, James Madison, James Monroe, and of commanding officers, deal with mobilization plans, military campaigns, movement of troops, battles, General William Hull's disaster at Detroit, 1812, his subsequent trial for treason in 1814, and other important incidents of the war.
Official papers, 1816-1841, include letters of Colonel J.J. Abert, John C. Calhoun, John Henry Eaton, H. Leavenworth, David Porter, T. Ringgold, Winfield Scott, John Tyler, and others, on military, administrative, political, and economic affairs, courts-martial, claims against the government, regulations of settlers, 1818-1820, Mexican War, Cherokee and Dakota treaties, West Point regulations.
Daniel Parker correspondence, 1811-1845, relates to his official and financial activities: letters of Amos Binney, James Byers, William Duane, D. Gadsden, C. Irvine, W. Rawle, Parker family, and others.
Additional items include: numerous pamphlets, army and navy registers; books on medicine; map of West Genesco, N.Y., 1800; view of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1807; map of a route from Kansas to the Pacific, 1843. |