Request for estimate of expenses for treating with Wabash Indians
Document 1789Request for estimate of expenses for treating with Wabash Indians. Asks for one estimate of contingent expenses such as subsistence and presents in order to conciliate Indians to peace; other estimate relates to amounts that would induce Indians to sell so much territory as to extend the east-west line established by the Treaty of Fort Harmar to the Mississippi.
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Type
Copy of Signed Document
Description
Request for estimate of expenses for treating with Wabash Indians. Asks for one estimate of contingent expenses such as subsistence and presents in order to conciliate Indians to peace; other estimate relates to amounts that would induce Indians to sell so much territory as to extend the east-west line established by the Treaty of Fort Harmar to the Mississippi.
Date
06/12/1789
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Office
Collection
Document number
1789061214100
Note
Cited in St. Clair to Knox, 06/14/1789.
Notable persons
Arthur St. Clair
Henry Knox
Wabash Indian
Indians
Notable locations
War Office
Fort Harmar
Mississippi
Notable items
estimate of expenses
treating
treaty
contingent expenses
subsistence
Indian presents
peace
Treaty of Fort Harmar
selling of land