War Department provides information to the Senate regarding Indain affairs
Document 1790Document, Minutes of opinions to Senate; discusses White aggression.
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Treats —
Minutes, wholly
to give information
and opinions to a
Committee of the
Senate this 8 Apr.
1790.
[Minutes — wholly to give information] 1. April 1790
3dly So prevent the intrigues, and depredations of [strikethrough: cunningly] [undecipherable] whites on the frontiers — and to carry into effect the [undecipherable: Resolutions] of Congress from time to time relative to the frontiers
The design in 178[undecipherable] by [undecipherable] — The order given on their [subject?] — The information [undecipherable] to Mr [undecipherable] relative to these tribes —
Unauthorized expeditions to the Indian Country — Rogers & [undecipherable]
The late Sales of Georgia — The method of [undecipherable] that business — A Recommendation where [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable: Legislature] [undecipherable] a dead letter —
4thly [undecipherable] the [undecipherable: operations] of the public [undecipherable: lands]
[undecipherable] to be, issued by their [undecipherable] in 1784. [17]85. 1780. & [undecipherable] to 1787. the [undecipherable: experience] with the [undecipherable] —
the Country N.W. of the Ohio
The [undecipherable: cession] of Mr [undecipherable]
The [undecipherable] [undecipherable: portion] of Georgia
2dly To cultivate the friendly dispositions of the Chickasaws & Choctaws, and to extend the trade to them, especially to the Treaty of Hopewell —
[illustrations]
The numbers and importance of these tribes and their [undecipherable: situation] to assist in the coercion of the [undecipherable: effects] of [undecipherable] — and [undecipherable] their neighbors —
The hates of the Chickasaws & Choctaws, both to the Spaniards — the recent [undecipherable: manifestations] of their dispositions as it relates of the Chickasaws to [undecipherable] by the [undecipherable: mission] of [undecipherable] per [undecipherable] — The [undecipherable] business — To be the [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable]
it result to the whole
[undecipherable: Opinion] of the [undecipherable: Propriety] of the [undecipherable: Requirement] and of no [undecipherable: colony]
the Opinion of the [undecipherable: President] [undecipherable] — both being a [undecipherable] subject —
[undecipherable] subject — both being a [undecipherable]
the [undecipherable: resolution] —
Mem: of the Posts recommended
by the Commissioners
1 [undecipherable]
1 [undecipherable: Bear's] Bluff
& junction of the [undecipherable] & [undecipherable]
1 Rock Landing
1 Middle [undecipherable]
1 [undecipherable] upper [undecipherable]
Type
Document, type undetermined
Description
Document, Minutes of opinions to Senate; discusses White aggression.
Date
04/01/1790
Author
Recipient
Repository
Collection
Document number
1790040190001
Page start
1
Note
This document includes portions written in the hand of Knox
Notable persons
War department
Henry Knox
Indians
Notable locations
Hopewell
country north of the Ohio
North Carolina
Georgia
Notable items
Chockataws & Choctaws
to extend the trade between agreeably to the treaty of Hopewell
coercion
Spaniard
manipulation
proclamation that unless aided by troops would be a dead letter
to prevent the intrigues and depredations of the cunning and lawless whites on the frontiers and to carry into effect decisions of Congress
relative to the frontiers
unauthorized expeditions into the Indian Country

