Indian Land Only Available to the United States

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Type

Typed letter

Description

Putnam assures Knox that neither he nor the Indians at the council at Vincennes ever considered that they had a right to sell their lands to any other power than the United States.

Date

02/11/1793

Author

Recipient

Sent from

Philadelphia

Collection

Document number

1793021140002

Notable persons

Rufus Putnam
Henry Knox
Indians

Notable locations

War Department
council at Vincennes

Notable items

their lands
government of the Union
protection