Superintendent General's Office, 1791-1828
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Speech to the Indian Nations
End of negotiations due to inability to reach agreement on boundary. Indians demanded Ohio River as boundary, U.S. requested land west of the Ohio River.
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Speech to the Chiefs & Warriors of the Indian Nations
Speech to the Chiefs and Warriors of the Indian Nations assembled at the foot of the Rapids of the Miami River respecting how the United States could not make the Ohio River the boundary line between …
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Speech of the Wyandot Chief to the Commissioners
In his speech to the Commissioners, the Wyandot Chief admonishes them that they know very well that the boundary line established by the White People at the Treaty of Fort Stanwix was the Ohio River.
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Speech of the General Council to the Commissioners
Speech of the Deputies of the Confederate Indian Nations, assembled at the Rapids of the Miami River, to the Commissioners of the United States.
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Speech of the Commissioners of the United States
Speech of the Commissioners of the United States to the Deputies of the Confederate Nations assembled at the Rapids of the Miami River. Mention disputes over the boundary lines, along with past …
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Ownership of Land West of the Ohio River
Official document from Confederacy of Indian Nations. Land ceded by a few chiefs of the Confederacy did not validate the U.S. claims to the land west of the Ohio River. Indians will not sell their …
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Meeting with the Council of the Indians
The Commissioners inform McKee that they have arrived at the Detroit River and are ready to move to Sandusky in preparation for their meeting with the nations of Indians at the rapids of the Miami. …
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Knox's Letter to the Western Indians
Knox says he has heard the voices of the Sachems, Chiefs, and Warriors and received their messages through the Six Nations. The President of the United States embraces their proposal and will send …
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Answer of the Commissioners to Captain Brandt's Speech
Answer of the Commisioners of the United States to the speech delivered yesterday by Captain Brandt in behalf of the Western Indians.
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Reply of the Six Nations of Indians
Reply of the Six Nations of Indians assembled in Council at Buffalo Creek on the 21st of April 1794 to a speech from General Knox, Secretary of War. The speech was delivered by General Chapin as …
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Meet in Council at Canandagua
Pickering urges the Indians to end their delay in replying to his request to meet them in council at Canandagua.
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Do Not Allow the Chain of Friendship to Grow Rusty
Colonel Pickering's speech to the Six Nations assembled at a Council held at Canandagua in which he urges them not to allow the Chain of Friendship to grow more rusty and possibly to become rotten and …
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Anthony Wayne's Declaration to the Indian Nations
This is General Wayne's declaration to the Delawares, Shawnees, Miamis, Wyandots, and all other Nations of Indians northwest of the Ohio in which he offers the friendly hand of peace and promises to …
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They Will Be Destroyed Without Distinction
Wayne warns that if the murders, robberies, and injuries perpetrated by the Cherokees and other Indians continues, he will call out his warriors to destroy them without distinction since he will be …
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Ratification of the Treaty of Peace
Pickering notifies the Sachems, Chiefs, and Warriors of the Six Nations of Indians, who he refers to as "brothers," that the Treaty of Peace concluded with them in November 1794 has been ratified by …
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Ratification of a Treaty of Peace and Friendship
President Washington formally confirms the ratification of a Treaty of Peace and friendship concluded by Timothy Pickering at Canandagua the 11th day of November 1794 between the Six Nations of …
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Treaty with the Seven Nations
A treaty made at New York with the nations or tribes of Indians known as the Seven Nations.
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