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1830 ANDREW JACKSON Presidential Appointment of the Indian Agent on Red River

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1830 ANDREW JACKSON Presidential Appointment of the Indian Agent on Red River
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Outstanding “Andrew Jackson” Signed Presidential Appointment of Jehiel Brooks “Indian Agent on Red River”
ANDREW JACKSON (1767-1845). Seventh President of the United States (1829–1837), a Politician and Army General who defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend (1814), and the British at the Battle of New Orleans (1815).
March 23rd, 1830-Dated, Manuscript Document Signed, “Andrew Jackson” as President, and Cosigned by John Eaton, as the 13th Secretary of War, at the City of Washington, Choice Very Fine. This impressive Document is beautifully handwritten in deep brown ink upon quality, watermarked official period wove paper, 1 page, 15.75” wide x 10” high (Large Folio), having its full original star shaped paper and wax Embossed Official Seal properly attached at lower left in virtually perfect condition. There is a fine vertical centerfold split which is archivally reinforced with a few trivial fold chips that could be easily conserved. The right side is somewhat of slightly deeper tone from this document having that portion touching something that caused the tone at some point. An important Louisiana and Indian Nation related Document for many reasons.

John Henry Eaton (1790-1856) was an American politician and diplomat from Tennessee who served as U.S. Senator and as Secretary of War in the administration of Andrew Jackson. He was the youngest U.S. Senator in history, as he was 28 years old when he took his oath of office.

Colonel Jehiel Brooks (April 8, 1797 Albans, Vermont - February 6, 1886) was a Soldier, Territorial Governor, and Plantation owner. He was First Lieutenant, in the First Regiment of Infantry with the Ohio Militia, in the War of 1812. He came to the District of Columbia to secure political appointment, but with the exception of an appointment in the Red River Indian Agency in Louisiana during the administration of Andrew Jackson (1829-1837), Brooks had little luck. Instead, he assumed the role of the gentleman farmer on a tract of land adjacent to property that later became part of The Catholic University of America.

The “Red River Indian Agency” (Louisiana) An agency was established in 1804 and was located at Natchitoches. About 1821, the agency was moved to Sulphur Fork in Arkansas Territory and at that time was called the Red River Agency. In 1825, it was moved about 25 miles down-stream to Caddo Prairie. That site was flooded and, as a result, in 1831 it was again moved about 50 miles even further down-stream to Peach Tree (or Orchard) Bluff, on the Bayou Pierre Channel, south of the site of Shreveport, Louisiana.

The agency was most commonly called the “Red River Agency,” although it was sometimes referred to as the Caddo Agency in Louisiana. The agency was discontinued in 1834 as the Caddo moved to Texas. A Treaty was signed on July 1, 1835 at the Caddo Agency in the State of Louisiana and the United States. The Articles of the Treaty were between Jehiel Brooks, commissioner on the part of the United States, and the Chiefs, head men and warriors of the Caddo nation of Indians. In 1859, the Caddo Indians moved to the Wichita Agency in Indian Territory. The Quapaw, who once were under the Caddo Agency in Louisiana, eventually moved to their reservation in Indian Territory and were placed under the Neosho Agency. Other Indian Tribes Associated With This Agency include; Caddo, Quapaw, Pascagoula, Apalachee, Biloxi, Koasti, Taensa, Alabama, Shawnee, Delaware, other small bands including roaming Indians from Texas (then part of Mexico).

This historic 1830 “Andrew Jackson” Signed Presidential Appointment of Jehiel Brooks “Indian Agent on Red River” is housed in a custom protective folio, not framed. It is attractive being nice in its appearance and presentation, making it an excellent candidate for proper framing and display.


Letters received by the Office of Indian Affairs from the Red River Agency, 1824-1830, have been microfilmed by the National Archives as part of their Microcopy Number M234, Roll 727. Copies are available at the National Archives and at the Family History Library and its family history centers (their microfilm roll number 1661457).

Agents and Appointment Dates:

John Sibley 1804, Thomas Gales 1814, John Jamison 1816, George Gray 1819, Thomas Griffith 1829, Jehiel Brooks 1830

As one of the largest holders of real estate in the District, Nicholas Louis Queen ran the Queen's Hotel near the Capitol until his death in 1850. The Brooks and Queens families united in 1828, when Jehiel Brooks and Ann Margaret Queen, the daughter of Nicholas Queen, married. They built the Brooks Mansion. His son, John Henry Brooks, later sold his parents' real estate to early twentieth-century developers of the Brookland neighborhood