Notes on the Speeches of Good Peter and Red Jacket
Document 1791Bolt describes in his notes the speeches of Red Jacket and Good Peter and discusses the progress of civilizing the Indians.He talks of the hostility of the Western Indians and mentions Indians and Indian warfare. He alludes to prisoners of war and land sales.
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[July 10. P.M. Red Fisher]
Dear Commodore, We are now going to Speak [undecipherable] with you to him —
As is my [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] me and this upon every bond [undecipherable] words —
I am [undecipherable] a very [undecipherable] [thought?]. This is the Case [undecipherable] on that
The white people were once in the Same Condition with us — I Stand [undecipherable]
well on [undecipherable] [undecipherable] told us that [undecipherable] white people had to [undecipherable] in the [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] men — The [passion?] of white people ago they are now entirely different [undecipherable]
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Type
Autograph Draft Document Signed
Description
Bolt describes in his notes the speeches of Red Jacket and Good Peter and discusses the progress of civilizing the Indians.He talks of the hostility of the Western Indians and mentions Indians and Indian warfare. He alludes to prisoners of war and land sales.
Date
07/10/1791
Author
Recipient
Repository
Collection
Document number
1791071090001
Page start
1
Notable persons
A. Bolt
Red Jacket
Johnson
Colonel Butler
warriors
citizens
adopted children of prisoners
white man
Shawanese
Delawares
traders
Western Indians
British
independent people
Congress
Six Nations
the President [Washington]
Notable locations
Tioga
Notable items
warriors minds uneasy
a true voice
no sale of land without knowledge of the President
council
chain of friendship
wish for peace
thoughts of revenge
Indian way of making war
Treaty at Tioga
the treaty
talks of peace
advantages which the white people [gain] from their labour
all our old rules
a bill
hard thoughts

