COPY:Pickering Speech to the Six Nations
Document 1791Speech regarding peaceful intentions of U.S. and Six Nations; dispelled rumors of bad whitemen and evil Indians.
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[marginalia: Also Lord Dorchester 4 to Lord Grenville no 25 of the 7th July 1791]
Copy of a Speech from S. Pickering to the
Six Nations
To the Sachems, Chiefs and Warriors
of the Six Nations
Brothers,
On the Seventeenth of last
Month, I sent a message to you, inviting
you to a Treaty which by the authority
of the United States I proposed to hold
at the Painted Post, on the 15th June
next, the message To deliver [undecipherable]
to [undecipherable] [undecipherable], to be handed
to Joseph Smith the Interpreter, & [undecipherable]
requested to go and interpret the
same to you, and as the Treaty was important,
[undecipherable] at the same time [undecipherable] another reason for
[undecipherable: Jasper] Parish the other Interpreter,
whom you know, that [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
be absent, or by some other accident my
message should not be properly made [undecipherable]
to you - I afterwards [undecipherable] Parish with a
Copy of it, to show and interpret it to all
your Nations. I have now given him a
Copy of it, under my hand and Seal -
Within memory you have seen and well
remember - I desire you to receive him as a
Brother and Friend, and to hear with attention
the
Type
Copy of Signed Document
Description
Speech regarding peaceful intentions of U.S. and Six Nations; dispelled rumors of bad whitemen and evil Indians.
Date
07/01/1791
Author
Sent from
State of Pennsylvania
Collection
Document number
1791070100001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Timothy Pickering
Lord Dorchester
Lord Grenville
sachoms
chiefs
warriors
Six Nations
Indians
Indian Nation
Joseph Smith
interpreter
Jasper Parish
hostile Indians
Notable locations
Pennsylvania
Painted Post
post
council fire
Notable items
treaty
