Cost Estimate of Providing Goods to the Six Nations
Document 1792Document, describes goods for Six Nations; describes annuity; discusses Indian castles; estimates Indian population by village.
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[Endorsement on cover: for the Six [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] — Nov. 1st 1792.]
Numbers of Indians
& Distribution of Clothing
Numbers of the Six
Nations & Distribu-
tion of Grants —
Capt. Dudly, 70.15.6
Mr Cofrath 20. 0.6
Mr Havens [undecipherable]
Mr Ewing 14. 0.0
105.15.0
488 — 8/[undecipherable]/01 — 33[undecipherable]
2440/205 18
34[?] 206 [undecipherable]
040 225 Cafe
40 60 Ten[undecipherable]
91 Little R[undecipherable]
[undecipherable] Kanal[undecipherable]
18 [undecipherable]
13 [undecipherable]
63 G[undecipherable] [undecipherable]
1173
[undecipherable table of figures continuing below]
[Left margin figures:] 45, [undecipherable], B.L.I, A.3, 1.4, 4
[Bottom totals:] 291 / 49 / [undecipherable] / 440 / 201 / [undecipherable]
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Numbers of the Six Nations, Nov. 1792.
Senecas — [undecipherable] main village at Cattylus Creek — 331
— White Chief's village — 107 — 488
— Cattrarangus — 225
— Allegany [undecipherable] two villages — 251[?]/343 — 556
— Canadawanda — 104 — 104
— Canawaugus — 22
— Genesee village — 91 — 80
— Ge tree
— [undecipherable] Hill — 190 — 399
— Ka-na-us-deo —
Total — 1693[undecipherable]
Caughnawaga[?] at McAllee's Creek — 215
at Reservation — [undecipherable] 145 — 360[undecipherable]
Cone. — Oneida — 600
— 26 — 626
Onondagas — [undecipherable] Niagara [undecipherable] 262 — [undecipherable]
At Oneida — 63 — 325
Cayugas — At the Reservation — 51 — 3006[undecipherable]
uncertain — at Buffalo Creek[?] [undecipherable] — [undecipherable]
(The rest of the Cayugas at Grand River) — 3079
Munsees, sometimes called Delawares [undecipherable] — 143
[undecipherable] or Stockbridge Indians
at Oneida — — 7 — [undecipherable]
To form the annuity of 4500 dollars, total
3557
K.
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Food & Liquors for Chiefs, Runners & the [undecipherable]
occasionally / for Six Months, December to May [undecipherable]
1000 lbs beef delivered piece meal, at 5.25 [undecipherable] —
10 [undecipherable] flour delivered in like manner, at 3 [undecipherable] —
2 barrels of whiskey say 60 gallons, at 1. — —
142.50
Ammunition for poor hunters, Chiefs & Runners
occasionally for [six?] months:
90 lbs rifle powder — at 30 cents — 30 —
200 lbs lead — — at 6¼ — 12.50
200 flints for rifle guns — — 1.—
43.50
[Brought over from previous page] — 227.42
[undecipherable] — 2[undecipherable].25
[undecipherable] — 10.
527.17
brought from above food & liquors — 142.50
[undecipherable]: 100 [undecipherable] — 1 cattle
1 light broad axe at 1.6[undecipherable]
1 handsaw — at 1.[undecipherable]
1 drawing knife — at — 1.[undecipherable]
1 dozen of [undecipherable] inch
1 [undecipherable]
3¾ — [12?] [undecipherable] by 1.17
1 dozen gimlets — .40
1 broad chizzel — .60
2 inch [undecipherable]
1 grindstone — 1.25
7.43
Number of Castles — .25
3,715
1486
185.75 — 185.75
For the Oneidas, by special request, [undecipherable] — 6.—
For all the castles together, 1 gross of files — 5.76
[Total] [undecipherable]
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Enumeration of the Castles
At Oneida — [undecipherable] the Oneidas — 4.
— Tuscaroras — 1
— Stockbridge — 1 — 6
Onondaga — Onondagas — 1
Cayuga — Cayugas — 1 — 2
Over Genesee River:
Upon the river, Senecas — [undecipherable]
At Tonawanta — [undecipherable]
Buffalo Creek [undecipherable] — 5 — 11
Tuscarora Castle Tuscaroras — 2
At Buffalo Creek Cayugas — 1
[undecipherable] — Onondagas — 2
[undecipherable] — Senawnees[?] — 1 — 6
25
The Complanter's Village may be supplied more
easily by the way of Pittsburg, and are
therefore omitted in this enumeration.
The amount of the foregoing Estimate — 867.18
To indemnify the Oneidas & their neighbors the
Tuscaroras of Oneida who were faithful to
the United States in the last war, in full of
all demand for services, loss of property,
according to the general [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
and the mutual engage[ment] of the Board of War
in [undecipherable] in September 1781. — — 500.—
To pay the Schoolmaster & two families to the [4th?] January
to buy iron & steel — — — — —
Dollars [undecipherable]
Type
Draft Document
Description
Document, describes goods for Six Nations; describes annuity; discusses Indian castles; estimates Indian population by village.
Date
11/17/1792
Author
Collection
Document number
1792111790101
Page start
1
Notable persons
Indians
Six Nations
Captain Dudly
Captain Dudley
Crossett
Havens
Ewing
Seneca
White Chief
Cornplanter
Geneseo
Onondaugas
Onondaga
Oswego
Oneida
Niagara Landing
Cayuga
Munsee
Delaware
Muhihemomichas
Mahican
Stockbridge Indians
chiefs
runners
poor
Tuscarora
Sapaunee
Board of War
Schoolmaster
smith
Five Nations
associates
Notable locations
Buffaloe Creek
Buffalo Creek
Catamugarus
Cataraugarus
Allegany
Allegheny
Tawnaurandic
Tawnawandic
Canawaugus
Geneseo Village
Sqaumeo Hill
Kaounodeo
Ka-oun-o-de-o
reservation
Oneida
Grand Rivers
Cayuga
Geneseo River
Tonnawanta
Tuscorora Castles
Pittsburgh
Notable items
clothing
distribution
Indian goods
food
liquor
beef
flour
whiskey
ammunition
rifle powder
lead
flints
rifle guns
cattle
light broad axe
handsaw
drawing knife
auger
gimlets
broad chizzle
broad chisel
grindstone
whip saw
files
castles
estimate
late war
steel
ennumeration

