Confers License on Stephen Hawkins to Trade with Creeks
Document 1797Follows instructions to the Agent of War. Reports that Stephen Hawkins, of Georgia, is back in New York. Hawkins has been licensed to trade in the Creek nation.
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Sr. Secretary of War October the 12th 1797
Agreeable to the instructions to the Agent of War I make you a return of the names, times licenced & places of residence of Stephen Hawkins late of the State of Georgia, to trade in the town of New fork on the Creek & attend the villages in the Neighbourhood under the Tuckabatchee old fields for three years from the such persons as have been licensed by me to trade in the Creek Nation Since I have acted for the Agent of War I confess have granted licenses to such only as have been recommended by the [undecipherable]
[marginalia: enclosed a Return for Noad Humed Stephen Hawkins & [undecipherable]]
Type
Letterbook
Description
Follows instructions to the Agent of War. Reports that Stephen Hawkins, of Georgia, is back in New York. Hawkins has been licensed to trade in the Creek nation.
Date
10/12/1797
Author
Recipient
Collection
Document number
1797101240301
Page start
1
Notable persons
James McHenry
Edward Price
Stephen Hawkins
Creeks
Secretary of War
agent
Notable locations
New York
Georgia
Creek Nation
Notable items
license
Indian trade