Trials of Offenders Against Treaties
Document 1793Blount agonizes over the two narrowly averted invasions of Cherokee towns and proposes that a tribunal be created with jurisdiction over trials of offenders agains treaties.
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Type
Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
Description
Blount agonizes over the two narrowly averted invasions of Cherokee towns and proposes that a tribunal be created with jurisdiction over trials of offenders agains treaties.
Date
02/01/1793
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Knoxville
Collection
Document number
1793020140000
Note
Cited in Blount to Knox, 02/12/1793, Knox to Lear, 02/28/1793, Knox to Lear, 03/11/1793, and Knox to Blount, 05/14/1793.
Notable persons
Henry Knox
William Blount
infantry of his regiment
Lieutenant of Cavalry
offenders against treaties
Judges of this territory
Notable locations
Knoxville
Cherokee Country
Gamble's [station]
Cherokee towns
Holston to Little River on the frontiers
Notable items
my order to Lieutenant Colonel Kelly
my Proclamation
letter from Colonel White
mistaken zeal to serve their country
existing treaty
tribunal