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Collection : JAMES ■ M . - PUCKETT COLLECTION
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1735-186U, 196U
Physical Description: 7 items (Xerox copies), including military service files.,
and compiled accounts and sketches containing letters, court records, diary, -
map, and reports.
Acquisition: NoVember I96U, Revolutionary War service files for Isaac
Horton and William McLeod, N. C. Militia. 17 pag es, photocopies, made
by Georgia Archives from copies of records in National Archives. Given
by James
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Puckett, Atlanta, Georgia; January 18, 196$, addition, copies
of land bounty papers; April lit , 196$, addition, copies of Confederate
Service Records; April 29, 1966, addition, reports.
Description: The collection primarily consists of copies of items pertain¬
ing to the Cherokee Indian Nation during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth
Centuries.' Of particular interest is compiled material entitled "Meigs’
Line — l802," copyrighted in 1966 by James M. Puckett. This account contains
a brief biographical sketch of Colonel Return Jonathan Meigs (17UO-1823),
copies of letters, a map, reports, lists, vouchers, and a diary giving de¬
tails of the survey of the boundary between the Cherokee Nation and the
State of North Carolina as supervised by Colonel Meigs (1802).
A second item prepared by James M. Puckett is a sketch or report on
Christian Gottlieb Priber (1697-post 17Ui). The court proceedings, con¬
temporary accounts, and newspaper descriptions which make up this report
give details concerning the activities of Priber, who lived among the
Cherokees during the 1730’s and attempted to draw all Southern Indians in¬
to an independent confederation which would be administered along commun¬
ist lines.
The remainder of the collection consists of Revolutionary War service
files for Isaac Horton who entered from Surry County, N. C., and William
McLeod of Macon County, N. C.; Creek Indian War (I8I3-I8II4) service records
for George Guess (alias Sequoyah) of the Cherokee Indian Regiment; and
Civil War service records for Brig. General Stand Watt
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who served in the
Indian Brigade from the Cherokee Indian Territory.
Finding Aids: .
Main Entry Card
Subject Cards
BOUNDARIES: Meigs’ Line between Cherokee Nation and N. C. (1802)
ETHNIC GROUPS— INDIANS: Cherokee Nation (1735-1802) •
GUESS, GEORGE (alias Sequoyah): Creek Indian War service of
