Reports Activity of Wyandot, Delaware, Shawnee, and Cherokee; British Attempts to Promote Subversion
Document 1785The Wyandot and Delaware have brought in their prisoners and released them. The Shawnees profess peace, but the Cherokees remain hostile and have killed and scalped 7 people recently. Includes an intelligence estimate of the Indian nations and an account of British efforts to foment anti-American sentiment among the Indians. Identifies a British agent of influence on the American frontier.
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Fort McIntosh, June 1, 1785
Sir:
The Wyandot and Delaware Nations have brought in their prisoners (fifteen in number) agreeable to the treaty, and the Hostages left in my possession are now dismissed. These nations are friendly. The Shawanese make great professions of peace. The Cherokees are hostile, and have killed and scalped seven people near the Mouth of the Scioto, about three hundred and seventy miles from hence.—
Speeches have been continually sending by the British from Detroit to the Indians, since the treaty, and I have good intelligence that several traders have been among them, using all means to make them entertain a bad opinion of the Americans. One Simon Girty, I am informed, has been at Sandusky for that purpose.
Your most Ardent Servant,
Jos. Harmar.—
[To General Knox.—]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
The Wyandot and Delaware have brought in their prisoners and released them. The Shawnees profess peace, but the Cherokees remain hostile and have killed and scalped 7 people recently. Includes an intelligence estimate of the Indian nations and an account of British efforts to foment anti-American sentiment among the Indians. Identifies a British agent of influence on the American frontier.
Date
06/01/1785
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Fort McIntosh
Collection
Document number
1785060140001
Note
In unbound journal marked "Correspondence of General Josiah Harmar transcribed by the War Department 1812."
Notable persons
Henry Knox
Lieutenant Colonel
Josiah Harmar
Indian Nations
Wyandot
Delaware
Cherokee
Shawnee
British
Congress
Simon Gerty
Settlers
New Jersey Troops
Pennsylvania Troops
Commissioners of Indian Affairs
Traders
Prisoners
Hostages
Shawnese
Henry Knox
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Fort McIntosh
Detroit
Scioto River
United States
Sandusky
Notable items
Intelligence
Banishment
Speeches to Indians
Treaty