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Mountflorence, James, fl. 1790 to Henry Knox

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.04735 Author/Creator: Mountflorence, James, fl. 1790 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 23 September 1790 Pagination: 2 p. : Height: 33.1 cm, Width: 20.4 cm Order a Copy

Concerns the conflicts along the Georgia frontier between Native Americans and white settlers. Some members living within the Natchez under the Spanish conquest said Colonel Washington wrote them "a letter directed to him on the Western side of the Mississippi." Mountflorence reports that "private letters from Georgia received by several of the Inhabitants of Cumberland, mention the Preparations making there and in South Carolina for sending out to the Mississippi immediately a number of Emigrants in the account of the aforesaid Company." On the back page in a different handwriting: "+ This is not Col. Washington lately of the American Dragoons." "This seems to have been by mistake for Eastern," and "The Gentleman from Prince Edward County in Virginia is well known to have been a late Continental Officer & was sent by Pat. Henry to flatter and deceive the Chickasaws."

Mountflorence, James, fl. 1790
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

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