Autograph Letter

Report from Cusseta Georgia in the Creek Nation

Report from Benjamin Hawkins. Surveying of the Spanish border from the Commandant at Pensacola was premature. Hawkins reports that he expects a meeting of Indian chiefs of the upper and lower towns at Coweta, which Hawkins refers to as his neighborhood. He reports that the Creeks and the Chickasaws have made peace. There was a meeting of the chiefs of the "4 nations" (probably refers to Creeks, Chickasaws, Cherokees, and Choctaws). The plans of the U. S. government to "preserve peace and a friendly intercourse" with the Southeastern Indians has taken "deep root" and it is not in the power of the United States to destroy it. The agents deal with much vexations, but Hawkins says that they will persevere in fulfilling the duties enjoined. There is a narrative of a recent murder in a settlement [Tondaw?] of about 60 families. At the Tombigbee River there are 40 families. These settlements are on the United States side, first on the left bank of the Alabama and other on the right bank of the Tombigbee. They have Spanish rights for their land. The settlement on the Tombigbee is the one the Choctaws complained of in their conference with the Secretary of War.

Report from Benjamin Hawkins. Surveying of the Spanish border from the Commandant at Pensacola was premature. Hawkins reports that he expects a meeting of Indian chiefs. Creeks and the Chickasaws have made peace. The plans of the U. S. government to "preserve peace and a friendly intercourse" with the Southeastern Indians has taken "deep root." Discusses settlements on Tombigbee and Alabama Rivers.

1797

10

23

Cusseta

Cited in Hawkins to McHenry, 11/19/1797.

Year not included by author; determined by internal evidence.

Cited document addressed to the War Office

James McHenry

Benjamin Hawkins

Indian Agents

Creeks

Choctaws

Chickasaws

Cherokees

Commandant at Pensacola

Cusseta Georgia

Tombigbee River

Spain

United States

Alabama

Alabama River

Pensacola

Coweta

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