Letter Signed

Speech made to the Oneidas by Congress and the Board of War September 1781 and overdue claims for service during late Revolution made by Good Peter and Skenandoah

Pickering informs Knox that Good Peter handed him a speech made to the Oneidas by Congress or the Board of War in September 1781. According to the Reverend Samuel Kirkland, Good Peter and his friend Chief Skenandoah [both of whom are present at the conference in Philadelphia], say they have not received their rewards. During the Revolution, Good Peter and Skenandoah were sent to Niagara by the Indian Commissioner for the Northern Department where they were subsequently imprisoned, and did not return home until the end of the war. Kirkland says that as compensation they each want a yoke of oxen, a plough, and $60 cash.

1792

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Philadelphia

Henry Knox

Timothy Pickering

Good Peter

Philadelphia

New York

Oneida

Indians who fought in American Revolution

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