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- GLC#
- GLC02437.05876-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 24 April 1793
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to Arthur St. Clair
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 22.9 cm, Width: 18.7 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Later copy made from the original in November 1856. Reports that President George Washington directed him to inform St. Clair that proposed treaty negotiations between the U.S. and the hostile Indians north of the Ohio River is to take place at Lower Sandusky around 1 June. To guarantee the success of the negotiations it is necessary to make sure "all hostile incursions of the white inhabitants into, or near to the Indian Country north of the Ohio, should be absolutely prohibited, until after the Treaty be closed." The commander of the troops has been ordered to make a proclamation to that effect. Asks St. Clair to take measures to prevent violence during these negotiations.
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