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New Commissioners to Negotiate Peace with the Southern Tribes

Knox informs the President that the commissioners report that the Creeks are favorably inclined to enter into a peace treaty with the United States. These commissioners, however, were previously appointed by the states of South Carolina and Georgia and were acting under the resolves of the Confederation Congress. Therefore, Knox points out that these commissioners' authority expired with the old government. As such, herecommends instituting a new federal commission of three persons to treat with the Creeks.

1789

07

28

War Office

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George Washington

Henry Knox

Creek Nation of Indians

Confederation Congress

commissioners

Southern Indians

War Office

South Carolina

Georgia

frontier

territory

federal commission

Indian relations

boundary disputes

land rights

war

treaties of peace

hostilities

the Constitution

...it may be proper to institute a commission, to consist of three persons, to be appointed conforming to the Constitution who should be invested with full powers to inquire into, and decide on, all causes of complaint between the citizens of the United States and the southern nations and tribes of Indians, and to negotiate and conclude with them firm treaties of peace...

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