Journal of meetings at Hopewell, South Carolina, on Keowee

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Type

Printed or published transcription/modern copy

Description

Commissioners of United States, in Congress, assembled to treat with Cherokees, and all other Indians southward of them, within limits of United States. Commissioners ordered a return of Indians; number there was five hundred. Because representation of tribes was not complete, agreed to postpone proceedings.

Date

11/18/1785

Author

Commissioners for Treaty of Hopewell, 1785

Sent from

Hopewell on Keowee, South Carolina

Collection

Printed Versions

Document number

1785111890000

Note

This document is a journal of the proceedings at Hopewell on Keowee South Carolina, and is unsigned.

Notable persons

Benjamin Hawkins
Andrew Pickens
Joseph Martin
Laughlin McIntosh
William Blount
Commissioners of Indian Affairs
koatohee
corn tassel
scholauetta
Hanging man
Cherokees
tuskegatahu
long fellow
oskwha
Kolaskusta
Newota
Gritz
konatola
Rising Fawn
Tuckasee
Young Terrapin
Terrapin
Toostaka
the waker
Untoola
gun rod
Unsuoakanail
Buffalo White Calf
Koastayeak
sharp fellow
Chonosta
Chescoonwha
Bird in Close
Chisetoa
the Rabbit
Chesicotetona
Yellow Bird
Sketaloska
Second man
Chokasatake
Chickasaw Killer
Onanoota
Ookoseta
Sour Mush
Umatooetha
Water Hunter
Wyuka
Tulco
Will
Necatee
Amokontakono
kawetatakee
keukuck
wooaluka
the way layer
tatliusta
porpoise
john
skelilak
Akonoluchta
the cabin
Chenanoka
Yellow Bird
William Blount
Samuel Taylor
Major John Owen
Jesse Walton
John Cowan
Captain Thomas Gregg
W. Hazzard
James Maddison
Arthur Cooley
Interpreters
head men
warrors
congress
indians
citizens
settlers
tribes
traders
prisoners
negroes

Notable locations

Hopewell on Keowee
South Carolina

Notable items

journal
treaty