Instructions to Colonel Timothy Pickering
Document 1791Knox instructs Colonel Pickering in the importance of maintaining an alliance with the Six Nations during the upcoming campaign against the Western Indians. The Indians should be made to appreciate the many advantages of friendship with the United States including protection against lawless whites, compensation for lost property, education of Indian children, pensions for the principal chiefs, and learning the arts of husbandry.
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Knox instructs Colonel Pickering in the importance of maintaining an alliance with the Six Nations during the upcoming campaign against the Western Indians. The Indians should be made to appreciate the many advantages of friendship with the United States including protection against lawless whites, compensation for lost property, education of Indian children, pensions for the principal chiefs, and learning the arts of husbandry.
Date
05/02/1791
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Collection
Document number
1791050200000
Notable persons
Timothy Pickering
Henry Knox
Vice President [Adams]
Heads of the Departments of State
Six Nations of Indians
Cornplanter, a Chief of the Senecas
Thomas Proctor
Governor Clinton
the enemy
Captain [Joseph] Brandt
friendly Indians
General St. Clair
children
principal chiefs
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Fort Harmar
Fort Washington
Tioga
Notable items
existing friendships
copies of written speeches
parchment
General Government
their interest and happiness
protection and friendship
war with the Western Indians
pacific dispositions
hostilities
their destruction
his attachment and fidelity
next session of Congress
improper conduct of lawless whites
atonement to the Indians
compensation for loss of property
punishment of the aggressors
arts of husbandry
education
pensions
your accounts
vouchers