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Journal of Commissioners of United States appointed to hold treaty at Sandusky for purpose of making peace with Western Indians

Journal of the commissioners of the United States appointed to hold a treaty at Sandusky for the purpose of making peace with the Western Indians. Commissioners: Benjamin Lincoln, Massachusetts; Beverly Randolph, Virginia; Timothy Pickering, Pennsylvania. Two commissions outlined. First gives the commissioners full power to confer, conclude and sign with such persons of Indian nations a treaty of peace between United States and said Indian nations. Second, commission states that the powers are held or retained by those commissioners in the event of sickness, death, or nonattendance of another.

Journal of the commissioners of the United States appointed to hold a treaty at Sandusky for the purpose of making peace with the Western Indians.

1793

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War Department

Cited in Blount to Knox, 04/09/1793.This document is enclosed in a statement relative to the South Western frontiers, as connected with the state of Georgia and Creek Indians, the south Western territory of the United States and the Cherokees submitted to the House of Representatives on December 4, 1793. This document is an integral part of [Public Reports] and other communications of the Secretary of War, 12/99/1793.

Henry Knox

Benjamin Lincoln, Massachusetts

Beverly Randolph, Virginia

Timothy Pickering, Pennsylvania

western Indians

War Department

Sandusky Ohio

Massachusetts

Pennsylvania

Virginia

northwest

Ohio River

United States

Indian treaty

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