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Authorizing provisions to be distributed to Indians
1791/04/20
Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829
"...to supply the Indians at a treaty I am authorized to hold with the Six Nations, at Painted Post."
GLC07192
to John Morton re: slave trade
1799/11/16
"Put a stop to the exercise of the slave trade by our citizens. Spanish laws prohibit neutrals from trading to the main, unless they import a given number of what are called 'New Negroes,' meaning such as are immediately from Africa." Morton served...
GLC07221
to Henry Knox
31 August 1783
Written by Colonel Pickering as Quartermaster General to Major General Knox. References receiving Knox's letter of 31 August, which enclosed two letters from George Washington (not included here). Will forward the one for Colonel Willet.
GLC02437.02445
6 April 1796
Written from the "Department of State." Pickering informs Knox of his appointment by President George Washington to a commission to determine the Eastern boundary of the United States on the St. Croix River in Maine [as stipulated by Jay's Treaty of...
GLC02437.06694
12 September 1782
Written from Camp Verplank's Point, present-day Verplanck, New York. Writes, "The French army is at hand, and the fifth waggon will be ready to cross the river on Saturday. Among other things we want strong ropes to drag the carriages in and out of...
GLC02437.01598
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