Inducements to ratify Indian treaty
Document 1791Report describing what is necessary to induce the Indians to ratify certain provisions of a recent treaty.
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Copy of document
Description
Report describing what is necessary to induce the Indians to ratify certain provisions of a recent treaty.
Date
08/16/1791
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Collection
Document number
1791081600001
Page start
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Notable persons
Henry Knox
Timothy Pickering
John Richardson
Cayuga
Ebenezer Allen
Six Nations of Indians
Seneca
Morris & Ogden
George Washington
Mr. Morris
Cayuga
Col Brinton Paine
Jonathan Stagg
Indians
Iroquois
Notable locations
Philadelphia
New Town Bank
Massachusetts
United States
Cayuga reservation
Seneka & Cayugas Lakes
Notable items
Indian treaty
lease
lands
information
report
proceedings
late treaty
children
women
grantees
pre-emption
they had no cause of jealousy or discontent
ratification
assignment to their two children
proposition
improvements of civil life
husbandry
improved state was the great object
chiefs
anxiety
instruction, children
they should receive necessary aid
Indians
culture
residue
exchange for a full supply of domestic animals
implements of husbandry and other necessities
condition
intimated
extinguishing the Indian title to any lands he had bought of Massachusetts
countenance
lease
pre-emption right was in the State of New York
session of the legislature
statutes
acted
late session (I think last winter)
petition
water communication
assembly
legislative sanction
presumption of its truth
evidence
case
judge
country court at Newton
information