Includes copy in handwriting of George Gibbs. Manuscript Document. 7 pages. Original is recorded in HRSCV.
Biographical / Historical:
The following note referring to the date of Casey's activity in Florida has been located by W. C. Sturtevant: "ABORIGINAL LITERATURE--Lt Casey, of the 2nd Artillery, who has been stationed at Fort Brooke, Tampa Bay, as commisary, since the commencement of our Indian war, we hear, speaks the Indian language fluently, and is now, during the recess of arms, busily engaged in making a SEMINOLE GRAMMAR."--Army and Navy Chronicle, volume 3, September 1, 1836, page 141.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 577
Local Note:
autograph document signed in printed outline
General:
Previously ttiled "Muskhogee or Creek vocabulary as spoken by the Florida Indians or Seminoles."
