No Answer Has Arrived

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Type

Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document

Description

The Commissioners express their desire for an answer to their speech to the Indian deputation in which they declared that they could not establish the Ohio River as the boundary between Indian territory and the United States.

Date

08/14/1793

Sent from

Captain Elliot's at the mouth of the Detroit River

Collection

Document number

1793081490100

Note

Enclosed in "A Journal of the proceedings at Council with the Western Indians", 08/24/1793.

Notable persons

Benjamin Lincoln
Beverley Randolph
Timothy Pickering
Commissioners
Chiefs and Warriors of the Indian nations assembled at the foot of the rapids of the Miami River

Notable locations

Captain Elliot's at the mouth of the Detroit River
the Ohio

Notable items

our speech to your deputies
written question
boundary between you and the United States
full council
treaty
terms of peace
ample justice