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Ogden, Samuel (1746-1810) to Henry Knox

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.04682 Author/Creator: Ogden, Samuel (1746-1810) Place Written: Morrisville, Pennsylvania Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 9 August 1790 Pagination: 2 p. ; 22.4 x 19.5 cm. Order a Copy

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.

For a discussion of Delaware Works and Morrisville, refer to W. W. H. (William Watts Hart) Davis, History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, from the Discovery of the Delaware to the Present Time. New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1905.

Ogden, Samuel, 1746-1810
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Carlton, Guy 1st Baron Dorchester, 1784-1808

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