Letter-1844, March 14

Transcribed letter from R.W. Cummins, Indian Agent, Fort Leavenworth Agency to T. Hartley Crawford, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Washington City, D. C. dated Mar 14, 1844 with enclosed transcribed agreement between the Rev J.C. Berryman and the Delaware Chiefs dated Feb 28, 1844

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Fort Leavenworth Agency
March 14, 1844

Sir

    I enclose herewith an agreement made and entered into by and between the Rev J.C. Berryman and the Delaware Chiefs, By which you will see that the Delawares have made arrangements with the Rev. J.C. Berryman to school fifty of their children annually for ten successive years provided they wish to send that number, at the Indian manual labor school established near my Agency site among the Shawnee Indians. The Chiefs evince a determination in future to have the children of their Tribe educated. I consider the agreement a very advantageous one on the part of the Delawares if they will only keep their children at school and they seem determined to do so.

I am Respectfully
Yr Mo Obdt Servt
Rich W Cummins
Indian Agent

Hon TH Crawford
Comr Ind Affairs
Washington City D.C.

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[Transcribed from National Archives microfilm series M574, roll 63, frame 350 by Roger Berg Jr. August, 1992]

[Enclosure: Agreement, February 28, 1844]