Report on conferences with Cherokees and his boundary surveys
Document 1797Hawkins reports on his conference with the Indians at Tellico, his plans to lay out small towns and trading posts at the sites of new military posts in the region, his surveys of boundary lands, his impressions of the Cherokees met in council, and discusses placing some Indians in the pay of the U. S. to assist in relations with the Indian chiefs .
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Type
Autograph Letter
Description
Hawkins reports on his conference with the Indians at Tellico, his plans to lay out small towns and trading posts at the sites of new military posts in the region, his surveys of boundary lands, his impressions of the Cherokees met in council, and discusses placing some Indians in the pay of the U. S. to assist in relations with the Indian chiefs .
Date
05/04/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Knoxville
Repository
Collection
Document number
1797050440001
Page start
1
Notable persons
James McHenry
Benjamin Hawkins
Cherokees
Creeks
Choctaws
chiefs
Notable locations
Knoxville
Tellico