Chapin discusses Indian affairs with Pickering
Document 1795Letter, discusses expenditures re Six Nations; informs re British council with Senecas at Fort Erie.
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Contemporary Copy of Letter
Description
Letter, discusses expenditures re Six Nations; informs re British council with Senecas at Fort Erie.
Date
10/09/1795
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Recipient
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Document number
1795100940001
Page start
1
Note
document written in the hand of Captain Israel Chapin, Jr.
Notable persons
Timothy Pickering
Captain Israel Chapin .
Wadsworth
Gov. Simcoe
Capt. John
Norris
Pill
Notable locations
Canandaigua
Fort Erie
Albany
Notable items
intend to copy the same and let you know their mischievious intentions towards us are not yet suspended
Six Nations remain very quiet
Senekas in council at Fort Erie
Oneidas have there sold to the commissioners of New York one hundred thousand acres of their reservation
sum they sold for I have not been able to learn
Capt. John, the Oneida chief died of sickness while at Albany
presumed to draw on you for the same
rec'd a further supply
make me accountable for the sum and for the expenditures of the whole
your letter
inclosed one thousand dollars
inclosed a receipt to you for the same
mentioned to you in my last I was under necessity for money for the use of the six nations