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Let us punish them for you.
06/17/1793 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
Smith urges Cherokee chief Watts to forego taking satisfaction against the white men who committed the base act against his people. The President can be relied upon to punish them instead.
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Large Army of Creeks Coming Against This Nation
04/29/1793 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
Piamingo alerts General Robertson that his Chickasaws will soon be attacked by a Creek army. He hopes that the general will recall past promises of assistance to his nation in dire circumstances such …
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Keeping Up a War with the United States
06/21/1793 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
Fulton attests to the machinations of a number of men, including Governor O' Neal and Mr. Panton, encouraging the Creeks to keep up a war with the United States. The Indians themselves say that they …
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Journal of the Commissioners Holding a Treaty at Sandusky
04/30/1793 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
The journal of the Commissioners of the United States, appointed to hold a treaty at Sandusky, for the purpose of making peace with the Western Indians.
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Irregular Design of Invading Indians
08/31/1793 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
Smith views a local Indian attack in which two men were killed as evidence of an imminent general Indian invasion of the district. He has recommended that General Sevier take command of the armed …
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Invasion of the Creeks
05/09/1793 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
Blount discusses the measures he has taken to relieve the district of Mero as its inhabitants face the prospect of an invasion by the Creeks. The Cherokees appear to be disposed toward peace but still …
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Intimidate the Indians as well as Kill Them
06/04/1793 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
Blount discusses the measures he has taken to prevent further depredations by parties of marauding Creek Indians. The Cherokee chiefs have announced their peaceful disposition and the Chickasaws, …
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Intelligence from the Lower Towns
06/17/1793 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
Smith has written letters to John Watts, Double-head, the Hanging Maw, and Edward Adair and asks Major King to obtain whatever intelligence he can from the Lower towns respecting what they intend to …
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Instructions to the Commissioners, Etc.
12/04/1793 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
"In obedience to the direction of the President of the United States, I have the honor to submit to the Senate the instructions to the Commissioners appointed to treat with the hostile Indians north …
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Instructions to the Commissioners
12/04/1793 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
Instructions to Benjamin Lincoln, Beverley Randolph, and Timothy Pickering, Commissioners appointed for treating with the Indians northwest of the Ohio.
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Instructions for the Sandusky Commissioners
03/21/1793 Letter Signed
The President orders his cabinet members and the Attormey General to meet and decide on the specific instructions to be given to the Commissioners who will attend the treaty at the lower Sandusky. …
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Inspectors of Hats, Boots, and Shoes
01/03/1793 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
"It is perfectly agreeable to me that Nathaniel Walters and Peter Cooper, the two persons mentioned in your letter of the 22nd ultimo, should be employed as inspectors at the prices folowing---vizt. …
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Information Respecting the Intentions of the Southern Indians
03/20/1793 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
Carey responds to Governor Blount's inquiries regarding the violence of the southern Indians against American settlers and the possibility of an alliance between the southern and northern tribes in a …
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Information Relative to the Southwestern Frontiers
12/18/1793 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
"In pursuance of directions from the President of the United States, I have the honor to submit to the Senate further information relatively to the Southwestern frontiers."
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Information from Macklin and Shelby
04/02/1793 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
"I have the honor to enclose a copy of the information this morning received by Mr. William Macklin, and of a letter written to his Excellency Isaac Shelby, Governor of Kentucky, in consequence …
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Information & Opinion Relative to the Creek Indians
07/25/1793 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
"I have the honor to submit the information and opinion of General Pickens relatively to the Creek indians. If there should be any other points on which it would be necessary to request his …
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Inflict Due Punishment on Them
09/30/1793 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
"In answer of yours of the 27th instant, which I acknowledge to have received, I hold it would be proper to follow the trail of that large party of Indians who massacred Caveat's family on the 25th …
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Indians must refrain from acts of violence.
06/20/1793 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
Smith is pleased by the pacific acts of the Cherokees but warns them against hostile acts against whites, such as stealing horses or killing them, that will provoke them to commit similar acts …
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Indians Have Been Commonly in Our Settlements
08/22/1793 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
Robertson reports on the hostile actions of the Indians which, though frequent, have been committed by small parties which can be confronted by companies of cavalry.
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Indian Land Only Available to the United States
02/11/1793 Typed letter
Putnam assures Knox that neither he nor the Indians at the council at Vincennes ever considered that they had a right to sell their lands to any other power than the United States.
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Indian Depredations.
08/31/1793 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
The author describes the murder by Indians of Samuel Miller, the widow Baker and all but two of her children, and the family of Robert Wells.
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Indian Attack on a Wagon Loaded with Corn
12/26/1793 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
Blount reports on an Indian attack, believed to be Creeks, on citizens transporting a wagonload of corn for the subsistence of local families in which two men were killed and a mulatto boy captured.
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Indian Activity on the Southwestern Frontiers
05/23/1793 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
Blount reports on Indian activity on the southwestern frontiers, noting that the Creek-Chickasaw War is not as fierce as might be expected, owing probably to the threat of Panton to withhold arms and …
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Inability to Remedy the Lawless Violence on the Frontiers
08/27/1793 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
Knox regrets the failure to establish peace on the frontiers but assures Smith that he is not to blame since, despite his good intentions, he did not have the means to remedy the severe situation …
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I want to redress your wrongs.
06/17/1793 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
Smith assures Double-head that the wrongs committed against the Cherokees will be redressed if they will only delay seeking satisfaction themselves.
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