Return Jonathan Meigs was a colonel in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and an early settler of the Northwest Territory. He also served as an Indian agent working with the Cherokee in East Tennessee.
Return Jonathan Meigs Sr.
Meigs is shown in the left foreground of The Death of General Montgomery in the Attack on Quebec, December 31, 1775 John Trumbull, 1786
In United States history, an Indian agent was an individual authorized to interact with American Indian tribes on behalf of the government.
Bust of Benjamin Hawkins