[316] July 8, 1824.
[317] Secretary of War to Governor Izard, of Arkansas, April 16, 1825.
[318] See map on file in Indian Office.
[319] May, 1825.
[320] In a letter from Agent Meigs to the Secretary of War, dated June 2, 1817, Major Lovely is spoken of as having been agent residing with the Cherokees on the Arkansas. He had been an officer of the Virginia line throughout the Revolution and participated in the capture of Burgoyne. He had lived some time in the family of President Madison's father, and went to Tennessee at an early day, whence (after living many years among the Cherokees) he removed with the emigrant party to the Arkansas. In a letter to the Hon. John Cocke from the Secretary of War, December 15, 1826, it is, however, stated that Major Lovely was a factor or trader in the Arkansas country, who took an active part in the preliminary negotiations that led finally to the conclusion of the treaty with the Osages of September 25, 1818. It also appears from the same letter that the estimated area of Lovely's purchase was 7,392,000 acres, and that when the west boundary line of the Cherokees was run, in 1825, it was found that 200 square miles of Lovely's purchase were included within its limits.
[321] Secretary of War to Arkansas Cherokee delegation in Washington, February 12, 1823.
[322] Secretary of War to Arkansas Cherokee delegation in Washington, October 8, 1821.
[323] United States Statutes at Large, Vol. IV, p. 153.
[324] United States Statutes at Large, Vol. IV, p. 40.
[325] April 3, 1827.