Indian Relations
Document 1791Indian relations and peace keeping efforts.
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Type
Contemporary Copy of Letter made from Recipient's Files
Description
Indian relations and peace keeping efforts.
Date
05/11/1791
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Department
Repository
Document number
1791051100301
Page start
1
Note
Enclosed in Knox to Pickering, 05/18/1791. This document is a surviving fragment of the George Clinton Papers, which suffered extensive damage in a 1911 fire at the State Capitol in Albany, NY.
Published in full in American State Papers, Indian Affairs, vol. 1, 168.
Notable persons
George Clinton
Henry Knox
President of the United States
Captain Joseph Brant
Captain Joseph Brandt
Cornplanter
Six Nations
Western Indians
young warriors
Seneca
Senecas
Indians
Department of War
Colonel Procter
Miami Indians
Kirkland
Colonel Pickering
Notable locations
New York
War Department
United States
northwest of the Ohio
Ohio River
Painted Post
Notable items
convention
pacific measures
authority
Indian affairs
law
character or views
enmity
deputation
justice, policy, and humanity
liberal treatment
concilate
reasonable sum of money
meeting