[478] Letter of Secretary of War to Commissioners Jones and Butler, October 18, 1844.
[479] October 18, 1844.
[480] Letter of General Jones to Commissioner of Indian Affairs, November 17, 1844.
[481] He was one of the chiefs of the Arkansas delegation who signed the treaty of May 6, 1828. (See United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 314.)
[482] Letters of September 12 and November 23, 1844, from Agent Butler to Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
[483] Letter of Commissioner Indian Affairs to Agent Butler, January 17, 1845.
[484] Letter of Oo-no-leh to Agent Butler, May 15, 1845. Guess left a widow, a son, and two daughters. Hon. T. L. McKenny, in a letter to the Secretary of War, December 13, 1825, says: "His name is Guess, and he is a native and unlettered Cherokee. Like Cadmus, he has given to the people the alphabet of their language. It is composed of eighty-six characters, by which in a few days the older Indians who had despaired of deriving an education by means of the schools * * * may read and correspond." Agent Butler, in his annual report for 1845, says: "The Cherokees who cannot speak English acquire their own alphabet in twenty-four hours."
[485] September 1, 1845.
[486] October 22, 1845.
[487] November 12, 1845. They explored up the valley of Stone Fort Creek a distance of 30 miles.