Fragment - Events After Gamelin Left Villages
Document 1790Indians went to war shortly after Gamelin left Indian villages during his tour to seek peace with Indian tribes.
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[Col. Hamtramck
26 May 97 Mr
Gamelin
Col St Clair]
I now enclose the proceedings of Mr Gamelin, by which your Excellency can have no great hopes of bringing the Indians to a peace with the United States. The 8th of May Game lin arrived, and on the 11th some Merchants arrived and informed me that as soon as Gamelin had passed three Villages on his return, that all the Indians had gone to War— that a large party of Indians from Mishilimackinack and some Potwatamies had gone to Kirtinkey, and that three days after Gamelin had left the Miamis, an American was brought there and burnt—
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Document Signed
Description
Indians went to war shortly after Gamelin left Indian villages during his tour to seek peace with Indian tribes.
Date
05/22/1790
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Post Vincennes
Document number
1790052290001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Governor Arthur St. Clair
Major John Hamtramck
Gamelin
Indians
Indian Nation
savages
hostiles
merchants
large party of Indians
Lotowatomies
Micuni
American
Notable locations
Post Vincennes
frontier
territory
Indian villages
Mishlimackinack
Kentucky
Notable items
Indian peace
burned
no great hopes of bringing the Indians to a peace

