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Hutchison Family Papers

出版	1773
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=lb8DvwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Land papers, lease agreements signed by tribal representatives of the Catawba Nation, commissioner's reports, minutes of meetings of Indian landholders, and correspondence reflecting Indian affairs along the boundary between South and North Carolina. Hutchison's interactions with members of the Catawba Nation include a document [approximately 1839], addressed to legislators in the South Carolina Senate, outlining a treaty with Catawba leaders that granted white South Carolinians "all their right, title and interest to their boundary of the Land, contained in a survey of fifteen miles square, lying on both sides of the Catawba River and situate in the Districts of York and Lancaster." Letter, 18 November 1840, outlines an agreement or treaty of sorts related to property. In a letter, 21 December 1842, W. H. Thomas discusses his conversations with some members of the Catawba Nation removed from South Carolina then residing with Cherokee at Qualla Township in western North Carolina. Thomas informed David Hutchison that the Catawba citizens he spoke with expected financial compensation but they did not express any desire to return to their former home lands in South Carolina, but that they did want, "their proportion of the sum provided by the Legislature of S.C.... for their lands." Thomas requested Hutchison's help in getting the funds to the Catawba, and suggested that such efforts could prevent lengthy legal battles: "it is presumable some of your Citizens who reside on the Catawba land would be much gratified to have the rights to the land they reside on settled. Otherwise at some future period considerable litigation may grow out of the claims of the few Catawba Indians or their descendants."