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- GLC#
- GLC02437.04397-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 25 October 1789
- Author/Creator
- Wayne, Anthony, 1745-1796
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- Savannah, Georgia
- Pagination
- 4 p. : docket ; Height: 32.1 cm, Width: 19.8 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Describes the situation in western Georgia concerning negotiations with the Creeks. The Commission has not succeeded as of yet in negotiating a treaty with the Creeks. Mentions violence along the frontier between Native Americans and white settlers, including incidents in which Native Americans attacked forts and burned them. Reports that the Spanish have concluded a treaty with the Creek Nation, and that Creek leader Alexander McGillivray was involved. Describes the Creeks as "numerous & insolent, until they were made to experience our superiority in the Field..." Suggests a military force to compel the Creeks to treat with the Commission on American terms, and extensively describes his plan.
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