Indian Attacks
Document 1790St. Clair mentioned Miami Nation hostilities and alliance with British traders. Advised punishment of hostile Indians for their depredations on frontier settlers and the raids on the Ohio river.
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[Genl St Clair
to the
Secretary of War
October
1st May 1790]
The major (Hamtramck)
understanding that there are some for-
mer mutual differences between that nation &
the people, he would so interpose as to
the misguided and on a display of spirit
both forward undertaking and [undecipherable], and
he has obliged to me in the offers made for
informing Indians of the rest of the month
on Matters of which I am not withheld
by their connexion with those that
every thing is disposed to the Measures,
which our negotiations is practicable
from – The confidence they have in
their Situation – the security of many
alterations either much endure there
be thoroughly applied to them thro
the United States and
emissaries of the British traders, joined
to the necessary bodies stationed to do
operations on the Ohio, will suffici-
ently prevent them from injuring to
very respectable Terms of accommodation
So that the United States may
comprehensively attempt to adopt them
and the compliance of not doing it
may very possibly be the [undecipherable] the
Type
Contemporary Copy of Letter
Description
St. Clair mentioned Miami Nation hostilities and alliance with British traders. Advised punishment of hostile Indians for their depredations on frontier settlers and the raids on the Ohio river.
Date
05/01/1790
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Cahokia
Collection
Document number
1790050151800
Notable persons
Henry Knox
Arthur St. Clair
Miami
Indians
Indian Nation
savages
hostiles
Major Hamtramck
Indian
interpreter
Gamelin
people of the frontiers
Notable locations
Cahokia
Ohio River
frontier
Ouisconsin
depredations on the Ohio
reasonable terms
Indian relations
pernicious counsels of British traders
Notable items
depredations on the Ohio
reasonable terms
Indian relations
pernicious counsels of British traders
depredation
raids
war
punishment

