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Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Silas Dinsmore papers

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-241
Abstract Correspondence, certificates, and report, 1794-1796, of Silas Dinsmoor, mainly concerning his duties as resident agent to the Cherokee. Four letters, Mar.-Oct., 1795, to David Henley, U.S. War Dept. agent, discuss the Cherokee desire for peace with the whites and the continuing problems in that regard caused by Creek raids on white settlements and the whisky trade for stolen horses. Certificates, 1795-1796, issued by Dinsmoor (some also signed by John McKee (Indian agent) and Charles Hicks...
Dates: 1794-1796

Timothy Pickering letters

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-926
Abstract Correspondence, dating mainly from 1795, of the secretary of war, Timothy Pickering, primarily with David Henley, War Dept. agent in the Territory of the United States, South of the River Ohio, but also with David Campbell, William Blount, and John McNairy, regarding Indian and militia affairs in what is now Tennessee. Much of the 1795 correspondence, including an extract of a letter to Gov. Blount and an Aug. 28, 1795, letter to Judge David Campbell, concerns the U.S. refusal to support the...
Dates: 1795-1798; 1795

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Certificates -- Southern States -- 1751-1800 1
Cherokee Indians -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
Chickasaw Indians -- Government relations -- Sources 1
Correspondence -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 1751-1800 1
Correspondence -- Southern States -- 1751-1800 1