Letter Signed

Letter, informs re Indian annuities; mentions compensation for Indian murder.

09/15/1796

War Office

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Cited in McHenry to Chapin, 09/23/1796 and Chapin to McHenry, 10/04/1796.

Israel Chapin

James McHenry

Pickering

Reverend John Sargeant

Bacon

Francis

War Office

Fort Pitt

Stockbridge

stated to me by the Secretary of State

Stockbridge Indians

proportion of the annuity

promised that the first and second years should be paid them in money

dollars

due of their first years's proportion

give your attention to this circumstance

pay

money sent to Fort Pitt to satisfy the Indian murder of which sixty dollars was offered and refused as being too little

compromise the affair with the parties and pay them

sums are to be distributed among the Senekas, Onondagas, Oneidas, Tuscaroras, Munsees and Cayuga indians in the ratios of their relative numbers

attorney

reverend John Sargeant agent for the Stockbridge indians

constitutes their annuity for the year

purveyor

received your letters

perceive by the enclosed copy of an extract of a letter from the superintendant of military stores

invoice

goods for the Six Nations