Thomas Jefferson Papers

To Thomas Jefferson from Tobias Lear, 2 February 1793

From Tobias Lear

Saturday 2d feby 1793

T. Lear has the honor to inform the Secretary of State that as it is a cloudy day the Indians decline doing business. Their meeting is therefore put off till monday 12 O’clock.

RC (DLC); endorsed by TJ as received 2 Feb. 1793.

The business that brought a delegation of Wabash and Illinois Indians to Philadelphia is described in Minutes of a Conference with the Illinois and Wabash Indians, printed under 1 Feb. 1793, and note.

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    To Thomas Jefferson from Tobias Lear, 2 February 1793
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    Lear, Tobias
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    Jefferson, Thomas
    Date
    2 February 1793

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from Tobias Lear, 2 February 1793,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-25-02-0127. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 25, 1 January–10 May 1793, ed. John Catanzariti. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992, p. 136.]

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