Instructions to the Commissioners

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Type

Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document

Description

Instructions to Benjamin Lincoln, Beverley Randolph, and Timothy Pickering, Commissioners appointed for treating with the Indians northwest of the Ohio.

Date

12/04/1793

Author

Henry Knox

Recipient

Benjamin Lincoln

Sent from

Philadelphia

Collection

Printed Versions

Document number

1793042600000

Note

Enclosed in Knox to US Senate, 12/04/1793.

Notable persons

Benjamin Lincoln of Massachusetts
Beverley Randolph of Virginia
Timothy Pickering of Pennsylvania
Henry Knox
Commissioners to negotiate with the hostile Indians
the President [Washington]
Five Nations of Indians
Wyanadots
Delawares
Ottawas
Puchonchehelas
British troops
General Clarke
Wabash tribes
General Putnam
prisoners
agents of the United States
traders
murderers
robbers
thieves
society of Friends [Quakers]
John Heckewelder, a Moravian teacher
influential chiefs
Major General Wayne
British agents Butler and McKee
General Hull
Jasper Parrish
James Dean
William Wilson
James Rankin
General Schuyler

Notable locations

Philadelphia
Lake Erie
Great Miami
New York
Albany
fort Stanwix
Wood Creek
Oswego
Niagara
Schenectady
Mohawk River

Notable items

Indian war
negotiation
scene of hostilities protection due frontier citizens
peace between Great Britain and France
treaty of Fort Harmar
fair purchase and sale [of land]
treaty of Fort McIntosh or the Miami
liberal compensation
Hutchin's map
boundaries
right of soil
tariff of articles
[annuity]
relinquishment of lands
compensation
general confederacy of all the tribes
patronage
death
robberies
horse stealing
Indian customs and manners
silver ornaments
offensive movements of the whites
council of Au Glaize
Shawanese and Delaware tongues [languages]
boats