Regarding purchases of lands; mutinies of militia; defeat of General Harmar's forces; Yazoo Battalion
Document 1790Asks for authority as agent of Yazoo company to purchase lands. Regarding trade and purchases with Choctaws, it would be better if O'Fallon had authority as general agent. Reports on the defeat of Harmar's army by Little Turtle and Indians. Presents military articles of contract entered into by the South Carolina Yazoo company, and their troops of the Yazoo battalion.
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Description
Asks for authority as agent of Yazoo company to purchase lands. Regarding trade and purchases with Choctaws, it would be better if O'Fallon had authority as general agent. Reports on the defeat of Harmar's army by Little Turtle and Indians. Presents military articles of contract entered into by the South Carolina Yazoo company, and their troops of the Yazoo battalion.
Date
09/25/1790
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Lexington
Collection
Document number
1790092590000
Notable persons
George Washington
James O'Fallon
Yazoo battalion
company
Choctaw
Indians
Indian Nation
Little Turtle
Josiah
Harmar
Spanish
Alexander McGillivray
agent
superintendent
Chickasaw
hunter
fisherman
Notable locations
Lexington
Kentucky
frontier
territory
post
Georgia
Pensacola
Florida
borders
boundary
Mississippi
Natchez
land
acres
property
stipendiary lands
plantation
South Carolina
Notable items
rations
meat
bacon
salt pork
Indian corn meal bread
flour
corn
salted beef
fish
gill
whiskey
taffia
rum
peltry
artillery