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CHEROKEE PHOENIX AND INDIANS' ADVOCATE
Wednesday April 8, 1829
Vol. II, no. 4
Page 3, col. 2b

  Several Tennessee Indians, ill with small-pox, have been wandering and begging in Virginia.  The Richmond Compiler attributes the cases of disease lately noticed in that neighbourhood [sic] to contagion from these poor creatures



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