Indian Land Only Available to the United States

Item

Type

Typed letter

Title

Indian Land Only Available to the United States

Description

Putnam assures Knox that neither he nor the Indians at the council at Vincennes ever considered that they had a right to sell their lands to any other power than the United States.

year created

1793

month created

02

day created

11

author

sent from location

Philadelphia

recipient

notable person/group

Rufus Putnam
Henry Knox
Indians

notable location

War Department
council at Vincennes

notable item/thing

their lands
government of the Union
protection

document number

1793021140002

Document instances

In image In source Location in source
[view document] (0 pages) [no image] Collection: Printed Versions [unknown]
[view document] (0 pages) [no image] Collection: Rufus Putnam [Transcript] Collection Vol, 3 p. 47
[view document] (0 pages) [no image] Publication: The Memoirs of Rufus Putnam [unknown]

Document names

Type Name Location Notes
Author Rufus Putnam Philadelphia [n/a]
Recipient Henry Knox [unknown] [n/a]