Autograph Letter Signed

Official Statement of Situation Between St. Regis [Iroquois] Indians & New York, Affirmation of Wadsworth as U.S. Commissioner, & Law Under Which the Treaty is to Be Made

Certificate of commissioner. Describes treaty situation -- the President has determined to hold a treaty with the St. Regis & other Indians claiming lands in northern New York, to allow negotiations between the Indians and the state to determine compensation for those lands -- and notifies any reader of Wadsworth's official appointment to hold this treaty, as commissioner. States that the treaty is to be made under the law of "An Act to regulate Trade & Intercourse with the Indian Tribes." Closes stating that the document has been certified with the seal of the War Department.

1795

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Office for Dept. of War

No image attached or found in online database. Hard copy file found in stacks, from which this DEII information was drawn.

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Jeremiah Wadsworth

Timothy Pickering

the President

[George Washington]

St. Regis Indians

[Iroquois Indians]

Indian Tribes

War Department Office

state of New York

St. Regis

treaty

Indian treaty

treaty with St. Regis Indians

compensation for Indian lands

U.S. law

"An Act to regulate Trade & Intercourse with the Indian Tribes"

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