Hanging Maw

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  We do not permit an individual to be his own avenger.

  08/27/1793 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document

  Knox assures the Cherokee Chief Hanging Maw that the President deplores the depredations that a few bad white men has inflicted upon him and his friends and hopes that they will be punished according …

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  Message from Secretary of War Henry Knox to the Hanging Maw sent by Governor Blount on the Incident at Hanging Maw

  08/27/1793 Author's Letterbook Copy

  Knox conveys the wishes of President of United States General George Washington, who expresses indignation at the attack made upon him [presumably attack and murder by Major Beard and his men at …

  Third Congress: Transcribed Confidential Reports and Other Communications Transmitted by the Secretary of War to the House of Representatives, 3d
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  Letter Citation

  04/13/1793 Cited letter or document

  Cited in Blount to Knox, 04/13/1793.

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  Forgive and Forget What Has Passed

  04/17/1793 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document

  Blount apoligizes to the Cherokee chiefs for the death of Noon-day who was killed because he was armed and mistakenly identified as a Creek warrior. Blount hopes that this accidental death will not …

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  Don't join the Creeks in the unprovoked war.

  06/13/1793 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document

  Despite the unprovoked attack on the friendly Indians at the Hanging Maw's, Smith entreats the Cherokee Chiefs to forego the violence exhibited by the Creeks and accept the invitation of the President …

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  Creeks' War with White People

  1793 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document

  Mr. McGillivray is dead and the Creeks are passing by on the way to war. If they make war on white people, it should be on the people of Georgia and not on those of our land.

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