Doughty sends intelligence to Knox regarding Indian intentions and British efforts to actively foment hostilities between the Indian Nations and the United States
Document 1785This 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.
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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
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Fort McIntosh
Collection
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
