Letter Signed

Treat with the Creeks at Colraine

Colraine is selected as the site of the treaty with Creeks over Fort Fidius because the troops at that place are sufficient to protect and give respectability to the negotiations.

1796

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War Office

Cited in Irwin to McHenry, 09/23/1796, and 04/05/1796.

Cited document sent from the War Office

Jared Irwin, Governor of Georgia

James McHenry, Secretary of War

Creeks

Indians

Native Amerians

War Office

Fort Fidius

Colraine

Georgia

treaty

fort

fortification

troops

protection

negotiation

respectability

Coleraine has been preferred to Fort Fidius chiefly because the troops at that place are insufficient to protect and give the respectability to the negotiation and because assembling the Indians there affords them an opportunity to traffic for such foods as they may want from the public trading house established at that station

the precedent besides these conditions which more peculiarly relate to the state of the Georgia, conceiving the justice, honor and interest of the United States to demand that the Indians who may assemble at the place of treaty be secured

the measures and rules being calculated to produce a fair negotiation, which along can secure your state as well as the Union from future quarrels with the Creeks cannot fail of meeting your approbation

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