Hawkins, Benjamin, 1754-1816 to Henry Knox
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.04813 Author/Creator: Hawkins, Benjamin, 1754-1816 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph document Date: December 1790 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; Height: 25.3 cm, Width: 19.9 cm Order a Copy
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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