Regarding Federal-State Relations and the Establishment of a Settlement at Presqu'ile
Document 1794Reassures Mifflin that the suspension of establishing a settlement at Presqu'ile is temporary, and was not meant (by the President) to supersede the power of Pennsylvania, but sooth relations with the Six Nations, and the President does not seek to interfere in the rights of the individual states. Hypothesizes when, and under what circumstances, the settlement project can be again undertaken. Knox expects word from the treaty commissioner soon.
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Reassures Mifflin that the suspension of establishing a settlement at Presqu'ile is temporary, and was not meant (by the President) to supersede the power of Pennsylvania, but sooth relations with the Six Nations, and the President does not seek to interfere in the rights of the individual states. Hypothesizes when, and under what circumstances, the settlement project can be again undertaken. Knox expects word from the treaty commissioner soon.
Date
07/21/1794
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War Department
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1794072100101
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1
Note
Cited in Mifflin to Washington, 07/22/1794, and Mifflin to Ellicot, 07/23/1794.
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Thomas Mifflin
Henry Knox
Secretary of War
Governor Pennsylvania
Six Nations
President Washington
treaty commissioner
states
western Indians
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Governor Mifflin
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Presque Isle
Canandaigua
New York
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