Policy Toward the Five Nations
Document 1792United States policy toward the Five Nations: This document authorizes money to be spent on clothing, domestic animals, implements of husbandry, and for encouraging useful artificers among the Indians of the Five Nations.
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George Washington President of the United States of America.
To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting,
Whereas a Treaty hath been stipulated with the five Nations of Indians by and with the advice and consent of the Senate of the United States which [undecipherable: a dote] is in [undecipherable: his] words following, to wit.
The President of the United States of America [undecipherable] from the department of War [undecipherable: Stipulates] in behalf of the United States the following [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] Nations of Indians [undecipherable] called [undecipherable] being the Oneidas [undecipherable: Stockbridge] Indians [undecipherable] united with them Tuscaroras Cayugas and Onondagas to wit.
"The United States in order to promote the happiness of the five nations of Indians will cause to be expended annually the amount of one thousand five hundred dollars in purchasing for them clothing domestic animals and implements of husbandry and for encouraging useful artificers to reside in their villages."
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(Now know ye) that I having seen and considered the [undecipherable] so [undecipherable] ratify and confirm the same. In testimony whereof I have caused the Seal of the United States to be here affixed and signed the same with my hand.
Given at the City of Philadelphia
The twenty third day of April
in the Year of Our Lord one
thousand seven hundred and
ninety two and in the Sixteenth
Year of the Sovereignty and
Independence of the United States.
(signed) Geo Washington
[seal]
By the President
Thos Jefferson
Copied by [undecipherable signature]
Type
Letterbook
Description
United States policy toward the Five Nations: This document authorizes money to be spent on clothing, domestic animals, implements of husbandry, and for encouraging useful artificers among the Indians of the Five Nations.
Date
04/23/1792
Author
Repository
Collection
Document number
1792042390001
Page start
1
Note
Enclosed in Knox [Instructions to Brigadier General Rufus Putnam], 05/22/1792.
Notable persons
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Stockbridge Indians
Oniedas
Cayugas
Onandagas
Tuscaroras
Senecas
Henry Knox
happiness of the Five Nations
useful artificers to reside in their villages
Tobias Lear
War Department
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Notable items
clothing
domestic animals
implements of husbandry
Seal of the United States
sovereignty and independence of the United States
