Certification of transactions in attempting to negotiate a peace with the Western Indians, now in hostilities with the United States

Item

Type

Copy of document

Title

Certification of transactions in attempting to negotiate a peace with the Western Indians, now in hostilities with the United States

Description

Certification by the Federal Commissioners for Sandusky Conference that the preceding was a just account of transactions in attempting to negotiate a peace with Western Indians

year created

1793

month created

08

day created

23

sent from location

Fort Erie, in the province of Upper Canada
Philadelphia

recipient

sent to location

War Office, Philadelphia

in image

note

Enclosed in [A Journal of the proceedings at Council with the Western Indians], 08/24/1793.This document is enclosed in instructions to the commissioners appointed to deal with the hostile Indians north of the Ohio, in the form of a journal of their proceedings, 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.

author note

Benjamin Lincoln; Beverly Randolph; Timothy Pickering.

cited note

Cited document that was neither sent to nor from the War Office

notable person/group

Federal Commissioners Sandusky
Federal Commissioners
Benjamin Lincoln
Timothy Pickering
Beverley Randolph
Henry Knox
Secretary of War
Charles Storer
Western Indians
United States

notable location

Fort Erie
Upper Canada
War Office
Philadelphia
Western Indians
United States

notable idea/issue

Journal of commissioners Sandusky Conference

document number

1793082390955

page start

98

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[view document] (1 pages) NOP01 (506 pages) Collection: Third Congress: Transcribed Confidential Reports and Other Communications Transmitted by the Secretary of War to the House of Representatives, 3d Congress, 1st Session, 1793, Vol. II [3C-B2] (RG 233) {M1268, roll 14} M: 1268, R: 14;p 98
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Document names

Type Name Location Notes
Author Federal Commissioners Treaty at Sandusky Fort Erie, in the province of Upper Canada [n/a]
Author Charles Storer Fort Erie, in the province of Upper Canada Secretary to Commissioners Sandusky Conference
Author John Stagg Philadelphia Chief Clerk War Office. Copied Federal Commissioner at Sandusky reports
Recipient Henry Knox War Office, Philadelphia [n/a]