Oct 02, 2012 - Sale 2287

Sale 2287 - Lot 19

Price Realized: $ 840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(AMERICAN INDIANS.) Maclin, William. Bill to the government of the United States for boarding eight Creek Indians. One page, 12 x 9 3/4 inches; minor wear. Nashville, TN, 24 May 1799

Additional Details

"To boarding eight Creek Indians two days at 33 1/3 cents per day each, and one gallon of whiskey." The account was presented by William Maclin Sr., then Tennessee's Secretary of State, and includes a note signed by witnesses John B. Cross, J.C. Maclin, Maclin T. Cross, William Carvin, and Andrew Henry.