C. Mildred Thompson papers

Descriptive Summary
Title: C. Mildred Thompson papers
Creator: Thompson, C. Mildred (Clara Mildred), 1881-1975
Inclusive Dates: 1786-1838, 1937-1938
Language(s): English
Extent: 0.25 Linear Feet 1 box
Collection Number: ms606
Repository: Hargrett Library

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Collection Description

Historical Note

"C. Mildred Thompson was a prominent historian, educator, and feminist."

For further information, see the article "C. Mildred Thompson (1881-1975)" at the New Georgia Encyclopedia.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of papers collected by Clara Mildred Thompson. Early papers include correspondence and depositions relating to Native American depredations in Georgia from 1786-1838. Letters, addressed mainly to Georgia governors, are from citizens who discuss Native American raids and violence to settlers. Correspondents include Joshua Inman, John Twiggs, Caleb Howell, Jared Irwin, Elijah Clarke, Benjamin Hawkins, John Clark, Stephen Hawkins, and C. Stephens. Depositions are of Abram Mordecai, John Burnett, Owen Bowen, Henry Carvel, Nathaniel Howell, and Isaac Green.

The collection also consists of letters from Margaret Mitchell to C. Mildred Thompson from 1937-1938. Letters discuss Mitchell's admiration of Thompson's "Reconstruction of Georgia," her desire to meet the author, and Thompson's request for information about the Ku Klux Klan.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

C. Mildred Thompson papers, ms606, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

Finding Aid Publication

Finding aid prepared on: 2018.

General Notes

Portions of this collection are also available online as part of the Southeastern Native American Documents database.

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Related Materials and Subjects

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Series Descriptions and Folder Listing

 

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Letter. Joshua Inman to the Governor of Georgia, 1786 May 23 Access Online

Citizens in his area are being driven off their farms by local Indians. He says that he has not yet taken up arms against the Indians but anticipates more trouble to come and asks for the governor's help.

 

1	2	Letter. Joshua Inman to , 1786 May 23 Access Online
		Reporting that the Creek Indians had committed depredations in Washington and Greene Counties

 

1	3	Letter. John Twiggs to George Walton, 1789 May 31 Access Online
		Requests supplies on behalf of Colonel Irwin and asks the governor to send orders to help them protect the inhabitants of this frontier area.

 

1	4	Letter. Caleb Howell to George Walton, 1789 October 4 Access Online
		Reporting that settlers living south of the Ogeechee River in Georgia have recently been troubled by unnamed Indians

 

1	5	Letter. Jared Irwin to George Walton, 1789 October 12 Access Online
		Reports that Indians have allegedly burned settlers' homes and stolen their crops and that many settlers took refuge in a fort, which the Indians later burned as well. Irwin says that they are without ammunition and are therefore relatively defenseless, and he asks the governor to send them some supplies.

 

1	6	Letter. George Walton to ?, 1789 October 13 Access Online
		Concern and surprise at the recent Indian depredations near the Oconee River

 

1	7	Deposition from Abram Mordecai, 1791 March 1 Access Online
		Mordecai states that on or about January 20, 1791 an Indian named Johnny came to Mr. Barnett (Timothy Barnard?) on the Flint River and told him that he had seen three armed Cusseta Indians travelling towards Savannah to trade skins

 

1	8	Deposition from John Burnett, 1791 October 31 Access Online
		Details property of Burnett's that was stolen or damaged during a recent war with the Creek Nation, prior to the signing of the Treaty of New York (1790)

 

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Deposition from Owen Bowen, 1792 December 3

 

1	10	Letter. Elijah Clarke to Edward Telfair, 1792 December 4 Access Online
		Regarding the murder of the Crocket family in Franklin County allegedly by Cherokee

 

1	11	Deposition from Henry Carrell, 1793 September 6 Access Online
		Carrel indicates that he was a member of a volunteer troop stationed at Long Bluff whose horses were allegedly stolen by an unnamed group

 

1	12	Letter. John Twiggs to Edward Telfair, 1793 September 8 Access Online
		Twiggs informs the governor of recent alleged attacks by unnamed Indians on the inhabitants of Greene County

 

1	13	Letter. Benjamin Hawkins to James Jackson, 1798 March 9 Access Online
		Hawkins reports that he has information from a Cusseta (also Kasihta) warrior that indicates that a recent murder of a white man named Allen was committed by two unnamed Uchee (also Yuchi) Indians

 

1	14	Letters. John Clark to Josiah Tattnall; "Friends & brothers...Cherokee Nation" to "the white people", 1802 April 8, 1802 March 27 Access Online
		Clark writes to inform Tatnall of a number of families that are currently settled on Cherokee lands across the recently established boundary line marking the border between Georgia and the Cherokee Nation. Clark encloses a copy of a talk sent by the Cherokees to the aforementioned settlers

 

1	15	Deposition from Nathaniel Howell, 1821 September Access Online
		From the son and widow of Nathaniel Howell in which they describe the alleged theft of two enslaved people, named Ned and Sam, and a shotgun in the year 1784

 

1	16	Letter. Stephen Hawkins to George M. Troup, 1826 January 26 Access Online
		Hawkins says that he was informed by "friendly" (Creek ?) Indians that his son is disliked among some "hostile" Indians, and he asks the governor to warn his son of possible danger before he travels back home through the (Creek ?) Nation

 

1	17	Deposition from Isaac Green, 1835 April 23 Access Online
		Financial claim on behalf of the estate of the late James Green against the Creek Nation. It includes a deposition in support of the claim sworn to by Isaac Green, son of the deceased

 

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Letter. C. Stephens to George R. Gilmer, 1838 February 24

 

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Margaret Mitchell letters to C. Mildred Thompson, 1937-1938