Hawkins, Benjamin, 1754-1816 to Henry Knox

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GLC#
GLC02437.04813-View header record
Type
Documents
Date
December 1790
Author/Creator
Hawkins, Benjamin, 1754-1816
Title
to Henry Knox
Place Written
s.l.
Pagination
2 p. : docket ; Height: 25.3 cm, Width: 19.9 cm
Primary time period
The New Nation, 1783-1815
Sub-Era
The Early Republic

Colonel Hawkins relates the events surrounding the negotiations between the Creeks and the United States government. Writes that the Creeks have expressed disapprobation of the treaty at Augusta in 1785 (Treaty of Galphinton). Discusses the negotiations that followed. Docketed by Knox with a note "important papers - to elucidate the early disapprobation of the Georgian tribes."

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