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Return Jonathan Meigs Sr. Return Jonathan Meigs (December 28, 1740 – January 28, 1823) [a] was a colonel in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and an early settler of the Northwest Territory. He also served as an Indian agent working with the Cherokee in East Tennessee.
Colonel Return J. Meigs, a Revolutionary veteran and namesake for the county, was appointed as the United States Indian agent, based in Rhea County until 1817. He supervised trade with the Cherokee. That year, the agency was moved to an area in what is now Meigs County.
Nathan Meeker, Indian agent for the White River Utes for a brief time, 1878–1879, until killed in the Meeker Massacre; Return J. Meigs Sr., agent to the Cherokee in Tennessee from 1801 to 1823; John DeBras Miles, Indian agent for the Kickapoo Agency, 1868–1871. Indian agent for the Cheyenne and Arapaho, 1878–1884.
Meigs County: 121: Decatur: 1836: Rhea County: Return Jonathan Meigs (1740–1823), an officer in the Continental Army who was for many years a federal Indian and military agent in Tennessee. 13,691: 195 sq mi (505 km 2) Monroe County: 123: Madisonville: 1819: Indian lands: U.S. President James Monroe (1758–1831). 48,594: 635 sq mi (1,645 km ...
Return J. Meigs Sr. was an Indian agent for the Cherokee from 1801 to 1823. He encouraged education, such as the establishment of the Brainerd Mission in what is now Chattanooga. He was respected by the Cherokees until they grew frustrated by the degree of white encroachment of their lands. [3]
A separate arrangement reserved certain parcels of land for use by Doublehead and his relatives. Black Fox confirmed Doublehead's treaty, however, after Return J. Meigs, the United States Indian Agent, promised Black Fox he would receive $1,000 in cash and a regular annuity thereafter. [4]
In 2001, an 18-year-old committed to a Texas boot camp operated by one of Slattery’s previous companies, Correctional Services Corp., came down with pneumonia and pleaded to see a doctor as he struggled to breathe.
Hicks was bilingual and he served as an interpreter to the U.S. Indian Agent Return Jonathan Meigs, Sr. (1740–1823). Meigs served as agent for more than two decades to the Cherokee in southeastern Tennessee/Western North Carolina, from 1801 to his death.