Speech of Seneca Chiefs to the President
Document 1791Cornplanter and other Seneca chiefs make their plea to the President to restore some of the land fraudulently taken from them by the Treaty of Fort Stanwix.
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Printed transcription/modern copy of Document
Description
Cornplanter and other Seneca chiefs make their plea to the President to restore some of the land fraudulently taken from them by the Treaty of Fort Stanwix.
Date
01/10/1791
Author
Recipient
Document number
1791011090000
Notable persons
George Washington
Seneca Chiefs
Cornplanter
Half-Town
Great-Tree
Joseph Nicholson
Ty. Matlack
John Dechart
Jem Hudson
commissioners
your children
agent
King of England
great council
children
Ebenezer Allen
Notable locations
Fort Stanwix
Lake Erie
bounary of Pennsylvania
Niagara
Conewango
Chataugua Lake
Notable items
land secured to us at Fort Stanwix
treaty
thirteen states
wisdom
our trade
abuses
your courts
sorrows
lies of Livingston
threats of war by Phelps
transaction
fraudulent bargain
goods
theft
blood spilled near Pine Creek
war
our towns
tilling the ground
plough
corn
saw mills
tools
our houses
blacksmiths