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The papers of Dr. James A. Leitch Wright, Jr., a historian who taught at Florida State University from 1968 to 1986. Wright received acclaim for his Colonial American research. His papers include correspondence, research materials, and manuscripts for his publications related to Southern Native American tribes.

This item is a United States certificate of transfer of public land in "The Tallapoosa Land District Alabama," (1845) to Pul-sey, one of the Creek Tribe of Indians. The transfer of land to Pul-Sey was, "by virtue of a Treaty between the United States and the said Creek Tribe of Indians, made by the 24th day of March 1832." The certificate is dated July 9, 1845. Other names mentioned were: Nat Macon Thornton & Co., Henry Meadows, J. Knox Walker, Secretary of the President, and S. H. Laughlin, Recorder of the General Land Office.

An ethnographical sketch of the Creek Native Americans in West Florida. There are historical reports that General McGillivray, the famous chief of the Creeks, attended a Native American congress at Pensacola where a treaty was signed with the Creeks, and it could be that this document was written at that or some other Native American congress held at Pensacola between 1789-1793.