"The administration of Thomas Moseley at the Wyandot Sub-agency occurred during one of the most important periods in the history of the tribe. Before the subagency was consolidated into the Kansas Agency, the Wyandots had laid the foundation for the settlement of many of the problems which confronted their tribe. After the Treaty of 1850 was concluded with the-government, the Indians could concentrate their efforts on improving the reserve in eastern Kansas. No longer was there any indication that they would be moved to another reserve in Kansas, but there was every reason to believe that funds promised by the government under the terms of the Treaty of 1850 would assist them in their attempt to improve their standard of living on the Wyandot Reserve."

Footnotes

2 Charles J. Kappler, compo and ed., Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, United States Senate, 58th Congress, 2nd Session, Executive Document Number 319 (5 vols., Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904) Vol. II, p. 1048.

3 Richard H. Faust, “William Medill: Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1845-1849,” The Old Northwest, Vol. 1 (June, 1975), pp. 129-140; Barry, The Beginning of the West, p. 502; T. Hartley Crawford to Richard Hewitt, April 24, 1845, The John G. Pratt Papers, Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kansas.

4 Faust, “William Medill: Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1845-1849,” The Old Northwest, Vol. I, p. 138; Hewitt to David D. Mitchell, May 28, 1849, and William Medill to Thomas Moseley, Jr., May 30, 1849, John G. Pratt Papers; Medill to Mitchell, March 31, 1849, Medill to Hewitt, May 3U, 1849, and Medill to Moseley, May 31, 1849, Letters Sent, Office of Indian Affairs, National Archives, Washington, D.C.; Francis A. Hicks, James Rankin, George I. Clark, John D: Brown, Matthew Mudeater, George Armstrong, James Washington, John M. Armstrong, John W. Greyeyes, and William Walker to James K. Polk, December 20, 1848, and Moseley to Medill, May 30, 1849. Letters Received, Wyandot Agency, Office of Indian Affairs, National Archives; Journal of the Wyandot Legislative Committee, December 20, 1848, Wyandot Indian Collection, Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

5 M. J. Edgeworth, West Central Kentucky Family Research Association, Owensboro, Kentucky, to the author, December 31, 1974; Elizabeth Gasser, Daviess County, Kentucky, Historical Society to the author, May 31, 1970; Records of the Sarcoxie Cemetery, Sarcoxle, Missouri.

6 Edgeworth to the author, December 31, 1974; Gasser to the author, May 31, 1976; Interview with Helen Andrews, Jasper County, Missouri Recorder, November 21, 1974, Carthage, Missouri; Quit Claim From Beverly Allen to Thomas Moseley, Jr., October 11, 1845, and Quit Claim from Samuel T. Vitotom to Thomas Moseley, Jr., May 5, 1846, Jasper County Court House, Carthage, Missouri.

7 Robert E. Smith, “The Final Removal of the Wyandot Indians,” The Westport Historical Quarterly, Vol. VIII June, 1972), pp. 7.8; J. J. Lutz, “The Methodist Missions Among the Indian Tribes of Kansas,” Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society, 1905-1906, Vol. IX (1907), pp. 220-221; Hewitt to Thomas H. Harvey, February 6, 1849, Letters Received, Wyandot Agency, Office of Indian Affairs, National Archives; James Gurly to John M. Armstrong, March 27, 1849, John M. Armstrong Papers, Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Medill to Thomas A. Morris, February 13, 1849, Medill to Gurley, April 6, and May 16, 1849, Letters Sent, Office of Indian Affairs, National Archives; Gurley to Thomas Ewing, June 9, 1849, and Ewing to Moseley, June 16, 1849, John G. Pratt Papers.

8 Moseley to Mitchell, July 12, 1849, Ibid,; William E. Connelley, “Provisional Government of Nebraska and Journal of William Walker,” Nebraska State Historical Society, Transactions and Reports, Ser. II, Vol. III (1899), pp. 292-293; for more Information on the cholera epidemic of 1849 see: Gerald F. Pyle, “The Diffusion of Cholera In the United States In the Nineteenth Century,” In David A. Lanegran and Risa Palm, An Invitation to Geography (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1973), pp. 71-86.

9 Moseley to Mitchell, July 12, 1849, John G. Pratt Papers.

10 “Remarks applicable to the Wyandot Semi-annual payment made by Richard W. Cummins, June 20, 1849, Mitchell to Cummins, June 26, 1849 and Mitchell to Moseley, June 28, 1849, Ibid.

11 Cummins to Moseley, July 10, 1849, and Orlando Brown to Mitchell, December 1, 1849, Ibid.; Francis Hicks, James Rankin, George I. Clark, John D. Brown and Matthew Mudeater to Moseley, July 16, 1849, Letters Received, Wyandot Agency, Office of Indian Affairs, National Archives.

12 Lucy B. Armstrong to Ewing, July 12, 1849, Ibid.; Moseley to Mitchell, July 12, 1849, John G. Pratt Papers; Monthly Statement of disbursements made by Thomas Moseley, Jr., Month of November, 1849. Letters Received, St. Louis Superintendency, Office of Indian Affairs, National Archives.

13 Francis A. Hicks, John D. Brown and Matthew Mudeater to Moseley, July 17, 1849, and Moseley to Mitchell, July 18, 1849, Letters Received, Wyandot Agency, Office of Indian Affairs, National Archives; Moseley to John M. Arm-strong, July 29, 1849, Lucy B. Armstrong Collection, Kansas State Historical Society.

14 Connelley, “Provisional Government of Nebraska and Journal of William Walker,” Nebraska State Historical Society, Transactions and Reports, Ser. II, Vol. III, pp. 289-290.

15 Ibid. p. 290; Reminiscences of Washington Henry Chick, Typed manuscript, Kansas State Historical Society.

16 Fragment of a draft of a letter by William Walker, 1849, Kansas Collection, Kansas City, Kansas Public Library. William Walker spelled Wyandot as Wyandott.

17 George Willis Read and Ruth Gaines, eds., Gold Rush: The Journal, Drawings and Other Papers of J. Goldsborough Bruff (New York: Columbia University Press, 1949), pp. 210, 667; Connelley, “Provisional Government of Nebraska and Journal of William Walker,” Nebraska State Historical Society, Transactions and Reports, Ser. II, Vol. III pp. Ill, 300-307; fn. 19, William E. Connelley, “The First Provisional Constitution of Kansas,” Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society, 1897.1900, Vol. VI (1900), p. 112.

18 Moseley to John M. Armstrong, July 29, 1849, Lucy B. Armstrong Collection, Kansas State Historical Society; Moseley to Mitchell, October 4, 1849, “Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs,” United States House of Representatives, 31st Congress, 1st Session, Executive Document Number S (Washington: Printed For the House of Representatives, 1849), Vol. III, pt. 2, p. 1085.

19 Moseley to Mitchell, October 8. 1849, and Mitchell to Brown, October 25, 1849, Letters Received, Wyandot Agency, Office of Indian Affairs, National Archives; Brown to Mitchell, November 6, 1849, Mitchell to Moseley, November 14, 1849 and Moseley to Mitchell, December 2U, 1849, John G. Pratt Papers, Kansas State Historical Society.

20 Moseley to Mitchell, October 8, 1849, Deed from Isaac Zane, Jr., November 6, 1849, Deed from Robert Robitaille, November 9, 1849, and Bill from Daniel Edginton, August 13, 18S0, Letters Received, Wyandot Agency, Office of Indian Affairs, National Archives; Brown to Mitchell, November 6, 1849, Moseley to Mitchell, December 2U, 1849, and Mitchell to Moseley, January 8, 18S0, John G. Pratt Papers, Kansas State Historical Society

21 William Walker to Moseley, September 13, 1849, “Statement of Persons Employed at the Wyandott Subagency, September 30, 1849, and Moseley to Mitchell, January 4, 1850, Letters Received, Wyandot Agency, Office of Indian Affairs, National Archives; A. S. Laughery to Mitchell, September 28, 1849, and Brown to Mitchell, January 31, 185U, Letters Sent, Office of Indian Affairs, National Archives; John Haverty to Moseley, October 9, 1849, Moseley to Guilford D. Hurt, December 31, 1849, Haverty to Moseley, January 15, 1851, and Moseley to Hurt, May 1, 1851, John G. Pratt Papers, Kansas State Historical Society; Statement of Persons Employed In the Kansas Agency, September 18, 1851, Letters received, Kansas Agency, Office of Indian Affairs, National Archives; Connelley, “Provisional Government of Nebraska and Journal of William Walker,” Nebraska State Historical Society, Transactions and Reports, Ser. 11, Vol. Ill, pp. 327, 342-343.

22 Mitchell to Moseley, September I, 1849, and Wyandot Chiefs to Moseley, October 6, 1849, John G. Pratt Papers, Kansas State Historical Society; Lucy B. Armstrong to Ewing, October 9, 1849, Letters Received, Wyandot Agency, Office of Indian affairs, National Archives.

23 Kappler, compo and ed., Indian Affairs Laws and Treaties, Vol. 11, pp. 534-537; James Washington, Henry Jacques, and John W. Greyeyes to T. W. Bartley, February 11, 1846, John W..Armstrong Papers, Gilcrease Institute.

24 Moseley to Brown, November 18, 1849, John G. Pratt Papers, Kansas State Historical Society; Bartley to John M. Armstrong, December 24, 1849, Letters Received, Wyandot Agency, Office of Indian Affairs, National Archives.

25 Brown to Francis A. Hicks, George I. Clark, and Joel Walker, January 26, 1850, N. C. Read to Brown, February 15, 1850, Brown to Ewing, March 6, 1850, and Hicks, Clark and Walker to Brown, March 30,1850, Ibid.; Kappler, compo and ed., Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, Vol. 11 pp. 587-588.

26 Journal of the Proceedings of the Wyandot Convention, May 7-23, 1850, and Moseley to Mitchell, May 23, 1850, Letters Received, Wyandot Agency, Office of Indian Affairs, National Archives.

27 Kappler, compo and ed., Indian Affairs Laws and Treaties, Vol. 11, p. 587; Seventh Census of the United States, 1850 (Washington: Robert Armstrong, 1853), p. 94; Minutes of the Wyandot Convention, December 2, 1850, Silas Armstrong to John M. Armstrong, February 10, 1851, and Moseley to Mitchell, February 12, 1851, Letters Received, Wyandot Agency, Office of Indian Affairs, National Archives.

28 Bartley to John M. Armstrong, April 16, 1851, John G. Pratt Papers, Kansas State Historical Society; Bartley to Luke Lea, April 19, 1852, and Receipt from the Delaware Chiefs, August 1, 1851, Letters Received, Kansas Agency, Office of Indian Affairs, National Archives; Connelley, “Provisional Government of Nebraska and Journal of William Walker,” Nebraska State Historical Society, Transactions and Reports, Ser. II, Vol. III, pp. 346-347, 351; United States Statutes, Vol. XXI, pp. 414, 421; Thomas M. Nichol to Daniel B. Dyer, March 15, 1881, Wyandot Indian Collection, Oklahoma Historical Society; H. Price to Secretary of the Interior, December 19, 1881, Report Books, 1838-1885,Office of Indian Affairs, National Archives; General Accounting Office Report Regarding Treaties With the Wyandotte Indians, Number 212 (Washington: Indian Claims Commission, 1953), p. 125; Interview with Leonard N. Cotter, Chief of the Wyandotte Tribe of Oklahoma, and Claude H. Kill1on, Business Manager, July 14, 1975, Joplin, Missouri.

29 Statements by Moseley, February 25, 1850, and December 12, 1850, John M. Armstrong, John Lewis, David Young, and John Arms to Brown, June, 185U, and Wyandot Chiefs to Luke Lea, August 8, 1850, John G. Pratt Papers, Kansas State Historical Society.

30 Connelley, “Provisional Government of Nebraska and Journal of William Walker,” Nebraska State Historical Society, Transactions and Reports, Ser. II, Vol. III, p. 313.

31 List of Government Appropriations for the Wyandots for 1851, February 4, 1851, John G. Pratt Papers, Kansas State Historical Society.

32 Ibid., pp. 368-37 I.

33 Barry, The Beginning of the West, pp. 884, 906-907, 1015.1016; Lea to Moseley, April 29, 1851, Letters Sent, Office of Indian Affairs, National Archives.

34 Moseley to Mitchell, September 18, 1851, and Edward D. Carter to Mitchell, September 18, 1851, Letters Received, Kansas Agency, Office of Indian Affairs, National Archives; A Statement of all fixed property with Its appendages In charge of Thomas Moseley, Jr., agent at the Kansas Agency, September 1, 1852, John G. Pratt Papers, Kansas State Historical Society; Connelley, “Provisional Government of Nebraska and Journal of William Walker,” Nebraska State Historical Society, Transactions and Reports, ser. II, Vol. III, p. 391.

35 Ibid. pp. 379.380; George W. Manypenny to Benjamin F. Robinson, April 28, 1853, Letters Sent, Office of Indian Affairs, National Archives, Robinson to Alfred Cumming, September I, 1853, “Report on Indian Affairs,” United States House of Representatives, 33rd Congress, 1st Session, Executive Document Number I (19 vols., Washington: Robert Armstrong, 1853), Vol. I, Pt. 1, pp. 636-637; Deed from Thomas Moseley, Jr. and Sally Moseley to Amelia Sanders, March 11, 1858, Jasper County Courthouse, Carthage, Missouri; M. A. Mischel, Director, Elmwood Cemetery, Owensboro, Kentucky to the author, February 26, 1976; Linda Anderson, Assistant Librarian, Kentucky Historical Society, to the author, February 27, 1976; Jeff McDonald, Research Assistant, Western History Collections Library, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, to the author, February 2, 1976; Nancy E. Malan, National Archives and Records Service, Washington, D.C. to the author, February 2, 1976; Interview with Mrs. Carolyn Moseley, Seneca, Missouri, June 3, 1976; Records of the Sarcoxle Cemetery, Sarcoxie, Missouri.

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