Ogden, Samuel, 1746-1810 to Henry Knox

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GLC#
GLC02437.04682-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
9 August 1790
Author/Creator
Ogden, Samuel, 1746-1810
Title
to Henry Knox
Place Written
Morrisville, Pennsylvania
Pagination
2 p. : Height: 22.4 cm, Width: 19.5 cm
Primary time period
The New Nation, 1783-1815
Sub-Era
The Early Republic

Ogden writes Secretary of War Knox to report that four Cherokee Indians traveled to Canada via the West Indies to "procure my Lord Dorchester's permission for the western and northern Indians to join them, and the Southern Indians in the war against the United States." Ogden believes President Washington should know this information in light of the recent treaty with the Creeks. Ogden also informs Knox that the previous autumn there had been another conference of Six Nation Indians in Buffalo decrying American treatment and looking for help from England. Mentions the participation of prominent Mohawk leader Joseph Brandt. Written at Delaware Works, located in what is now Morrisville, Pennsylvania, near Trenton, New Jersey.

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