COPY: Letter of Condolence Regarding Murder at Beaver Creek
Document 1791Assurances of punishment for the murder of Indians by white people, reprimands other bad Indians for "mischief".
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[Copy] to Captain Pipe and the Chiefs and Warriors of the Delaware Nation.
Brother
It gave me great pain when I heard of the Murder of some of your people, who were peaceably going thro' British settlements, by some bad white people. I assure you Brother, my heart bleeds for them, and could you see it, you would find nothing but good Wishes toward the Delawares.
Brother
The President of the United States will be very angry at this affair, and the people who committed the Murder, will certainly be brought to punishment, be assured our Brother, that it is with my Government and by its good people in the utmost abhorrence, and that it will be punished in the same manner, as it had been so many white people that they had killed; and the Governor of Pennsylvania has made proclamation I such a one that more than its how much is disapproved of his mind & has and advice for the taking of any of them that were concerned in it.
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Brother
It is a very important event and has happened and you well know it and we wish that from the misfortunes which must arise to the Whites Nations and each, the they had lived and for years, and that our two [undecipherable] have all lived together in the land which has given us birth, like Brothers— You know Brother, here wherefore
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Type
Copy of Signed Document
Description
Assurances of punishment for the murder of Indians by white people, reprimands other bad Indians for "mischief".
Date
04/30/1791
Author
Recipient
Collection
Document number
1791043090101
Page start
1
Notable persons
Arthur St. Clair
chiefs
Delawares
Delaware Nation
Indians
Indian Nation
warriors
brothers
white people
bad white people
governor
Notable locations
Beaver Creek
territory
land
Notable items
proclamation
