Request for Transport of Indian Presents for Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, & Others
Document 1800Directs transport of Indian presents, variously to Cherokee, Chickasaw, Creek, and other unnamed tribes.
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[The within is a true Copy of a Copy received from Mr [undecipherable] Agent of the Quarter Master General.
Andrew RMifflin
Purveyors Office 1801.]
[Docket: Copy of a Letter from the Secretary of War to the Quarter Master General respecting the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] August [undecipherable] 1800]
War Department May 28th 1800
Sir
I inclose you an order on Mr Hauies for the delivery of Goods for the Annuities to the several Indian Nations therein mentioned which you will be pleased to have transported as follows.
Those intended for the Cherokees to the address of John W Hooker at Tellico, subject to the orders of Captain Thomas Lewis.
Those for the Chickasaw to the address of Capt Thomas Lewis Chickasaw Bluff —
Those for the Creeks to the address of Edward Wight Factor Fort Wilkinson Georgia —
And those for the other enumerated tribes to the address of the Commanding Officer at Fort Washington to be delivered to the order of Governor St Clair.
I am, Sir,
your ob:t Servant.
James McHenry.
[Copy]
John Wilkens Junr Esqr
Quarter Master General
Type
Document Signed
Description
Directs transport of Indian presents, variously to Cherokee, Chickasaw, Creek, and other unnamed tribes.
Date
05/28/1800
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Department
Document number
1800052800001
Page start
1
Notable persons
John Wilkins Jr
James McHenry
Mr. Huses
Hughes
Indian Nations
Indians
Cherokee
John W Hooker
Captain Thomas Lewis
Chickasaw
Captain Thomas Lewis
Creek
Edward Wright
factor
tribes
Commanding Officers
Governor Arthur St. Clair
Mr. J. Miller
Andrew R Mifflin
Notable locations
War Department
Tellico
Chickasaw Bluff
Fort Wilkinson
Georgia
Fort Washington
Notable items
goods
annuities
transport
Indian annuities

