It is our desire for your people to lay down their arms.
Document 1792Representatives of the Six Nations report on their mission to the Westward Indians to get them to agree to a peaceful settlement.
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Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
Description
Representatives of the Six Nations report on their mission to the Westward Indians to get them to agree to a peaceful settlement.
Date
11/16/1792
Collection
Document number
1792111690000
Notable persons
Brothers, People of the United States, and King's People
General Washington
hostile Indians
Six Nations
Western Indians
women and children
one people of one color
white people on this island
young warriors
head chiefs
Shawnee nation
interpreters
Sir William Johnston, agent from the King
messengers of peace
property owners of some land
Governor Simcoe
Fish Carrier
Cornplanter
Major Littletrates
British government
Notable locations
Buffalo Creek
river Ohio
Miami towns
the Glaize
Detroit
rapids of Miami
Notable items
council fire at Philadelphia
friendship
journey
sickness
string of wampum
pipe
future posterity
Unions
chain of friendship
lips
voice of the United States
instructions of Congress
property
advice
treaty at Fort Stanwix
bloody roads
dish and spoon
bloody tomahawk
agents from the United States
records, plans, maps, and documents
terms of peace