Western forts
Document 1784Discusses the British occupation and evacuation of army posts within the western territory of the United States. General Haldiman informs Knox that he has received no orders from the British King to evacuate the posts despite the ratification of treaty of peace
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[Copy of a letter from the Governor General Dorchester to [undecipherable] General [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] July [undecipherable]]
Copy of a letter from the Governor General Dorchester to [undecipherable] General [undecipherable]
Dated [undecipherable] the 18th July 1788
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I have the honor to receive your letter dated the [undecipherable] 10th [undecipherable] and [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] the arrangements directed by Congress the [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to maintain the [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
as [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and an [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
of the [undecipherable] within the United States, now [undecipherable] by the troops of [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to be [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable] Treaty of [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] on a matter of mutual convenience, an exchange of certain [undecipherable]
States and these posts for [undecipherable] to be delivered at West Point upon
[New York?] or some other convenient place — I have the honor to
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] copies of letters which passed between his
[undecipherable] Clinton and [undecipherable] upon the first part of your proposition —
The Sam [undecipherable]
to his Majesty's Minister of the [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] Treaty of
[undecipherable] remains in other respects in the same situation, not having received
[undecipherable] to evacuate the Posts which are without the limits [undecipherable] by —
(S.)
Type
Contemporary Copy of Letter
Description
Discusses the British occupation and evacuation of army posts within the western territory of the United States. General Haldiman informs Knox that he has received no orders from the British King to evacuate the posts despite the ratification of treaty of peace
Date
07/13/1784
Author
Recipient
Repository
Collection
Document number
1784071340001
Page start
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Notable persons
Henry Knox
Haldimand
Lieutenant Colonel Hull
Congress
troops of his Britannic Majesty
Governor Clinton
His Majesty's Ministers
Notable locations
Quebec
New York
West Point
Hudson River
New York
Canada
Notable items
letter
sovereign authority of the United States
United States
occupied
delivered
definitive treaty of peace
exchange
cannons
stores
posts
copies
letters
ratification
evacuation
his Majesty's orders
arrangements
