[3] His letters also reveal the tension within the US government on how to handle the new territory, and whether or not they should heavily guard the border between the two[clarification needed].
[4] In his position of Indian Agent of New Orleans, he was instructed to stay in contact with the Governor and the War Department, with populations, the names of important people, and their overall living situations, as well as to help smaller tribes prepare for land surveying by the government.
[2] As Sibley's time in the Louisiana Territory passed, his family, who still lived in North Carolina, began suffering the rumors that he had abandoned them.
However, Sibley had written a letter in 1808 that read, "I am making arrangements to remove my family from North Carolina to this place.
[2] Due to these connections, Sibley became involved with myriad occupations, including being part of the Louisiana State Senate, becoming a colonel of a militia, a cattle farmer, a cotton planter, and a salt manufacturer, before passing away in 1837.