Private Property and Accounts
Document 1800Opinion that Negro woman is private property, information on private accounts of Benjamin Hawkins. Requests orders on how to act if Indians were to engage the U.S. in war, cites his location as badly supplied and dangerous.
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Nashville No 6
[undecipherable] Moor 2d [undecipherable]
Nov 25th 1800
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Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Opinion that Negro woman is private property, information on private accounts of Benjamin Hawkins. Requests orders on how to act if Indians were to engage the U.S. in war, cites his location as badly supplied and dangerous.
Date
05/26/1800
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Fort Wilkinson
Document number
1800052680101
Page start
1
Note
Cited in Wright to Harris, 08/01/1800.
Notable persons
John Harris
Edward Wright
Indians
Creeks
Indian Nation
Benjamin Hawkins
slaves
women
Negro
Gibbons
children
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Fort Wilkinson
Georgia
frontier
factory
Notable items
dollars