Notification of Official Certificate for Appointment as Indian Comissioner
Document 1795Encloses official certificate of Wadsworth's appointment as commissioner for the treaty with the St. Regis [Iroquois] Indians. Notes that the certificate is similar to that lately granted to General Anthony Wayne, only varying in the power given to the commissioner. [The certificate is here preserved as a separate file of the same date].
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[Private]
War Office Sept. 10. 1795.
Your favour dated the 1st instant has but this moment reached me. Inclosed is a certificate (under the Seal of the War Office) of your appointment to hold the Treaty with the St. Regis Indians. A similar certificate was transmitted to General Wayne to hold a Treaty with the Western Indians, only varying the power to the object.
I am respectfully your
T. Pickering
Colo Jeremiah Wadsworth
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Encloses official certificate of Wadsworth's appointment as commissioner for the treaty with the St. Regis [Iroquois] Indians. Notes that the certificate is similar to that lately granted to General Anthony Wayne, only varying in the power given to the commissioner. [The certificate is here preserved as a separate file of the same date].
Date
09/10/1795
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Office
Repository
Collection
Document number
1795091005101
Page start
1
Notable persons
Colonel Jeremiah Wadsworth
Timothy Pickering
St. Regis Indians
Iroquois Indians
Anthony Wayne
commissioner
Notable locations
War Office
Notable items
notes
certificates