Pleasing Proof of Your Strong Friendship

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Type

Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document

Description

Blount, Governor of the territory south of the Ohio River and Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Southern District, assures the Choctaws of the friendship of the United States and encourages young Chocttaw warriors to join the impending campaign against the western Indians.

Date

1792

Document number

1792999990200

Notable persons

Chiefs & Warriors of the Choctaw Nation
William Blount
Anthony Foster
James Randolph Robertson
Henry Knox, Secretary of War
General Washington
Mr. Shaw
Cherokee nation
young warriors
Chickasaws
red people

Notable locations

Cumberland
Fort Washington

Notable items

medals
arm-bands
clothes
proofs of the friendship
treaty of Hopewell
thirst for military fame