Letters of Benjamin Hawkins: 1796 1806 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Letters of Benjamin Hawkins: 1796 1806<br><br>This volume contains the writings of Col. Benjamin Hawkins the United States Agent for Indian Affairs South of the Ohio River covering a period from 1796 to 1806. The original manu scripts have been in the possession of the Georgia Historical Society for about three-quarters of a century and as a contribution to the history of Georgia and of the United States the Society now gives them to the public. There are in all nine of these volumes written by Hawkins himself and one by his secretary Richard Thomas. They are in the form of bound journals and the writing is distinct and well preserved.<br><br>One of these volumes entitled A Sketch of the Creek Country was published for the Georgia Historical Society in 1848 by Mr. Wm. B. Hodgson and it forms Part I of Volume III of the Society''s collections. This is not included in the present volume. The letters of Richard Thomas who seems to have been the secretary of Hawkins for a time are included as they pertain to the affairs of the Indian Agency.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.