Treaty with Creeks
Document 1788Treaty with Indians over land dispute.
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[Letter to [undecipherable]
wrote & sent by the [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] Intendant & [undecipherable]
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dated 25th Aug 1788
M. 12. 1788]
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To Alexander M[undecipherable] Esquire and oth[ers]
the chief Men and [undecipherable] of the Creeks —
Our last to you [dated/Dated] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] 1788 from Fort [undecipherable] appointed the [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] place for holding the Treaty.
every effort [undecipherable] has been [exerted] to
affect it by that time [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] equal
[reasons] are found [impracticable] — [some] powerful
ones are — the [express] dispatches from the
present Congress not arriving in time without
which the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for putting the
Treaty into [execution] upon a [formal] foot-
ing [cannot] be found [undecipherable] [conduct-]
the change of government taking place
since and the probability of our [receiving]
instructions [very] shortly under the [undecipherable]
of the new [form] [undecipherable] [limit] in this, as
as in [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for the general
[favour] [undecipherable] will be not [unimportant]
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] our [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] but these
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] with
[undecipherable] Treaty [undecipherable] I wish
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to both
[undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [nation] to [tend]
[undecipherable] of [past] [year] on the
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] and can
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] on the
[head] of [government] [undecipherable]. Your nation
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] will be [assured]
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [the] [affairs] do [to] the
wis[dom] of [your] [people] [such] as [came] to com-
to [a] Peace
We [rest] [ourselves]
[Your most] [humble] [Servants]
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Signed { [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Treaty with Indians over land dispute.
Date
08/28/1788
Recipient
Collection
Document number
1788082890001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Alexander McGullivray
Creeks
Indians
Indian Nation
Superintendent of Indian Affairs
Richard Winn
Andrew Pickens
George Mathews
Indians
officers
chief of Creeks
congress
Notable locations
Fort Charleston
War Department
Notable items
treaty
land dispute
Indian affairs
Indian relations
peace
supplies


