Doughty sends intelligence to Knox regarding Indian intentions and British efforts to actively foment hostilities between the Indian Nations and the United States

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Type

Printed transcription/modern copy of letter

Description

This is an intelligence report from Captain John Doughty to Henry Knox, Secretary at War. This report assesses Indian intentions and British efforts to actively foment hostilities between the Nations and the United States. Doughty identifies Alexander McCormick as his source of information. McCormick requests to have his identity protected because he intends to winter in British-controlled Detroit.

Date

10/21/1785

Recipient

Sent from

Fort McIntosh

Document number

1785102151800

Notable persons

Henry Knox
Captain John Doughty
surveyors
indians
Wyandots
Delawares
Tuscarawas
John Leith
Alexander McCormick
Colonel Harmar
Chambers
emissaries
British
French

Notable locations

Fort McIntosh
Fort Stanwix
mouth of the Hockhocking
Detroit

Notable items

murder
treaty
policy
subversion