Treat with the Creeks at Colraine
Type
Letter Signed
Title
Treat with the Creeks at Colraine
Description
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.
year created
1796
month created
03
day created
03
author
sent from location
War Office
recipient
in collection
note
Cited in Irwin to McHenry, 09/23/1796, and 04/05/1796.
cited note
Cited document sent from the War Office
notable person/group
Jared Irwin, Governor of Georgia
James McHenry, Secretary of War
Creeks
Indians
Native Amerians
notable location
War Office
Fort Fidius
Colraine
Georgia
notable item/thing
treaty
fort
fortification
troops
protection
negotiation
notable idea/issue
respectability
notable phrase
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
document number
1796030300001
page start
1
number of pages
4
