Describes Activity at Fort Harmar; Mentions Supplies, Officers, Recruits, Indians
Document 1788Lists recent correspondence. Hopes that the treaty with the governor of the Western Territory will pacify the "savages" and land with the Ohio Company purchase. Discusses habitability of land according to several reports around the Muskingum and Ohio Rivers. Discussion of federal territory. Encounter with mutinous John Sullivan on federal land and settlers' concerns about navigation on the Mississippi and dealings with the Natchez and New Orleans. Reports low supplies and bad weather. Mentions the work of retaining recruits and the need for a new captain. Reports the inhabitability of Fort McIntosh and intentions to send troops there to Fort Pitt.
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