COPY: Enclosed Letters and Extracts from Pickering
Document 1791In Secretary of War's absence, Stagg transmitted letters from Pickering who was in the process of negotiating a peace with the hostile Indians.
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War Department
May 25th 1791.
Sir
The Secretary at War being absent for a few days at New York, I am commanded by the President of the United States to transmit to you the enclosed communications from Colo Simoler Pickering, which have been received in the absence of the Secretary, relative to Captain Frederick Aupaumut Chief of the Stock-bridge Indians who is gone forward on an embassy to the hostile Indians to persuade them to listen to the voice of peace.
I have the honor also to transmit you extracts of Colo Pickering's letters to the Secretary at War dated the 16th and 20th instant on the same business — and also a duplicate to the Secretary to have dispatches to you of the 21st instant.
I have the honor to be
Sir, with great respect
Your's most Obedient
Humble Servant
[signed] H. Knox, Secy
[undecipherable]
Major General St Clair
[undecipherable] No 9
Type
Copy of Signed Document
Description
In Secretary of War's absence, Stagg transmitted letters from Pickering who was in the process of negotiating a peace with the hostile Indians.
Date
07/28/1791
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Department
Collection
Document number
1791072815101
Page start
1
Notable persons
Arthur St. Clair
John Stagg Jr
Indians
hostile Indians
Stockbridge Indians
Indian Nation
Pickering
Captain Hendrick
Secretary of War
Notable locations
War Department
frontier
Notable items
dispatch
letter
extracts

