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Jackson, AndrewAutograph letter signed ("Andrew Jackson") to Secretary of War John C. Calhoun, suggesting a plan to contain Native Americans on the islands of Florida Bay 1 page (248 x 203 mm), Nashville, 6 December 1821. Integral address leaf with small seal hole, old folds. Jackson suggests a plan to contain Native Americans on the islands of Florida Bay "In reference to the point which I designated as most fit to concentrate the Florida Indians, I am happy also to have your Concurrence, it certainly is the most eligible for that object within the Floridas. If the Government should determine on this arrangement, I would suggest the propriety of dividing the 4th Regiment of Infantry and establishing on Battal[io]n at Tampa Bay to prevent all illicit intercourse with the Indians from the Islands." After resigning his military commission on 1 June 1821, Andrew Jackson accepted the appointment as the first governor of Florida, but was disappointed in the post and resigned less than six months later. Congress authorized a territorial government in 1822, officially designating Florida a territory of the United States. Not in The Papers of Andrew Jackson and evidently unpublished. PROVENANCE:Frank T. Siebert Library, his sale, Sotheby's New York, 28 Oct 1999, lot 621