CIRCULAR: Notification of President's Offer to Indians for Peace
Document 1792Notification of President's final offer to hostile Indians for peace, messengers dispatched. Advised against hostilities toward Indians.
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Circular
Fredck Washington 9th April
1792.
Sir.
Willing to spare the effusion of human blood, where it may be done consistently with the rights and interests of the Nation, The President of the United States has determined to give the greatest and decided offers of Belligerent Indians, a last opportunity to save themselves by an honorable and wholesome alliance.
For this purpose, Messengers have been dispatched to their several Towns with overtures of Accommodation, and as it is deeply interesting in every point of view that whilst these overtures are pending, Offensive measures from Peace on the part of the United States in every quarter.
It is ordered by the Honorable the Secretary of War, that you and the Militia under your command, to prevent all hostility, other [undecipherable] that may be rendered necessary in your own defense, until the
Type
Copy of Signed Document
Description
Notification of President's final offer to hostile Indians for peace, messengers dispatched. Advised against hostilities toward Indians.
Date
04/02/1792
Author
Sent from
Fort Washington
Collection
Document number
1792040290001
Page start
1
Notable persons
James Wilkinson
President
Secretary of War
hostile Indians
Indians
Indian Nation
messengers
militia
Commanding Officers
Notable locations
Fort Washington
frontier
Kentucky

