Commissioners Clarifying Misunderstanding
Document 1793Commissioners announced they would anxiously wait for reply from Council at Rapids of the Miami River.
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The Commissioners then said that they would wait to hear again from their council at the Rapids; But desired that their answer might be without delay.
Augt 2: ...I walked, towards evening, on the bank of the river; was discovered by a man of opposing who met me and carried me to his house. from him I learned that a little distance there from [undecipherable] in a new field, he had discovered a large circular fortification, which must have been erected very many years Since; for, besides very large timber [thus] standing therein, there were many which having come to maturity, had fallen down, and appear to have remained in that situation for a long time. The fortification embraced about four acres. He also added that a fortification of some kind or other, would be [undecipherable] every four miles [square?] in all this part of the Country. In tilling the land, they plow up parts of earthen pots & some stone [undecipherable]. from this it is evident that the people who
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Type
Draft Fragment
Description
Commissioners announced they would anxiously wait for reply from Council at Rapids of the Miami River.
Date
08/01/1793
Repository
Collection
Document number
1793080290001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Commissioners for the Northern Department [Beverley Randolph, Timothy Pickering, and Benjamin Lincoln]
Indian Nation
chiefs
council
Notable locations
Miami River
Notable items
Council at the Rapids of the Miami River

