Enclosed Instructions for Pursuing Treaty with Cherokee Indians
Document 1798Comformably to orders of President Adams, McHenry lays before the Senate, (addressed to Vice President Thomas Jefferson), detailed instructions on how to pursue treaty negotiations; copy of instructions to George Walton and Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Butler, Commissioners; Talk of President Adams to Chiefs and Warriors of Cherokee Nation; journal of proceedings of commissioners appointed to hold treaty with Cherokee Indians. Main goal is to negotiate sales of land.
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Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Comformably to orders of President Adams, McHenry lays before the Senate, (addressed to Vice President Thomas Jefferson), detailed instructions on how to pursue treaty negotiations; copy of instructions to George Walton and Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Butler, Commissioners; Talk of President Adams to Chiefs and Warriors of Cherokee Nation; journal of proceedings of commissioners appointed to hold treaty with Cherokee Indians. Main goal is to negotiate sales of land.
Date
03/13/1798
Author
Sent from
Philadelphia
Document number
1798031300001
Page start
3
Notable persons
James McHenry
Cherokee
Indian Nation
George Walton
Alfred Moore
John Steele
commissioners
Indian agent
Silas Dinsmoor
President John Adams
Vice President Thomas Jefferson
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Tennessee
Knoxville
land
territory
frontier
Ohio River
Duck River
Clinch River
Cumberland mountains
Tennessee River
Nashville
Powell River
North Carolina
French Broad River
Big Pigeon River
Notable items
treaty
Treaty at Holston