Official Congressional Approval of Treaty with Northwest Indians
Document 1784Official naming and appointment of commissioners. Commissioners given permission by Congress to agree upon boundary line.
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The United States in Congress Assembled
To all to whom these Presents shall come Greeting
Whereas we have judged it proper that some person be nominated & commissioned to hold and [undecipherable] in the [undecipherable] military [undecipherable] of the United States of America in its frontier and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] superintending the affairs [undecipherable] known by the name of the War Department and all the [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] officers who may [undecipherable] and hold themselves [undecipherable] for the proper [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] for the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] collecting [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for public [undecipherable] and directing the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] United States [undecipherable] for the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] understood and appointed we hereby and herein [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] National, Federal, [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to be a Man of [undecipherable] great [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] any [undecipherable] more [undecipherable] a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] National, Federal, [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of greater [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to this [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] National, Federal, [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] by [undecipherable] and under the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] The [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the Body [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to hold [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the good [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] of the United States [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] all [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of the United States of America in Congress Assembled, [undecipherable] having this [undecipherable] day of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to be given from [undecipherable] the [undecipherable]
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Type
Document Signed
Description
Official naming and appointment of commissioners. Commissioners given permission by Congress to agree upon boundary line.
Date
04/06/1784
Author
Collection
Document number
1784040690001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Thomas Mifflin
George Roger Clarke
Indians
Northwest Indians
Indian Nation
Cherokees
Oliver Wolcott
Nathaniel Greene
Richard Butler
Stephen Higgenson
Philip Schuyler
commissioner
Arthur Lee
Benjamin Lincoln
Notable locations
northwest
territory
Ohio river
frontier
settlement
villages
boundary
Notable items
appointment
