Uncovering the Truth About Meriwether Lewis by Thomas C. Danisi

Author:Thomas C. Danisi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2017-09-04T04:00:00+00:00

33. GILBERT RUSSELL TO THOMAS JEFFERSON, JANUARY 4,

1810, FORT PICKERING, CHICKASAW BLUFFS31

Concerning it a duty encumbered upon me to give the friends of the late Meriwether Lewis such information relative to his arrival here his stay and departure, and also of his pecuniary matters as came within my knowledge which they otherwise might not ascertain and presuming that as you were once his patron, you still remain'd his friend, I beg leave to communicate it to you and thru you to his mother and such other of his friends as may be interested.

He came here on the 15th of September last from whence he set off intending to go to Washington by way of New Orleans. His situation I tho't rendered it necessary that he should be stoped until he would recover, which I done & in a short time by proper attention a change was perceptible and in about six days he was perfectly restored in every respect & able to travel. Being placed then myself [page 2] in a similar situation with him by Bills being protested to a considerable amount I had made application to the General & expected a leave of absence every day to go to Washington on the same business with Governor Lewis. In consequence of which he waited six or eight days expecting that I would go on with him, but in this we were disappointed & he set off with a Maj. Neely who was going to Nashville.

At the request of Governor Lewis I enclose the land Warrant granted to him in consideration of his services to the Pacific Ocean to Bowling Robinson Esq., Secy of the Treasury at Orleans with instructions to dispose of it at any price above $2 an acre & to lodge the money on the Bank of the United States or any of the branch banks subject to his order.

He left with me two Trunks a Case and a bundle which will now remain here subject at any time to your order or that of his legal representatives. Enclosed is his memo respecting them but before the Boat in which he directed they might be sent got to this place I recd. a verbal message from [page 3] him after he left here to keep them untill I should hear from him again.

He set off with two trunks which containing all his papers relative to the expedition to the Pacific Ocean, Genl Clarks Land Warrant a Port-Folio, pocket Book, Memo, and note Book together with many other papers of both a public & private nature; two horses two saddles, & bridles a Rifle gun pistols pipe Tommy hawk & dirk, all ellegant & perhaps about two hundred & twenty dollars of which $99 58/100 was a Treasurer's Check on the U.S. branch Bank of Orleans endorsed by me. The horses and saddle and this Check I let him have. Where or what has become of his effects I do not know but presume they must be in the care of Major Neelly near Nashville.

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