1To George Washington from Henry Knox, 12 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
and Choctaw Indians at Nashville in the summer of 1792, see
2From George Washington to Henry Knox, 22 August 1792 (Washington Papers)
For Knox’s statement in a 27 July letter to General Wayne that it was too late in the year to launch a military campaign using Chickasaw and Choctaw
Indians against the hostile Indians in the Northwest Territory, see
3To George Washington from Henry Knox, 15 September 1792 (Washington Papers)
6:38. For information on William Blount and Andrew Pickens’s journey to Nashville and their subsequent meeting with the Chickasaw and Choctaw Indians, see Blount to Knox, 4 July, and “Journal of the Grand Cherokee National Council,” 26 June–1 July 1792, in
4To George Washington from Henry Knox, 29 September 1792 (Washington Papers)
Andrew Pickens and William Blount had returned from a peace conference with the Chickasaw and Choctaw Indians on 7–11 Aug. (see
5To George Washington from Charles Pinckney, 30 September 1792 (Washington Papers)
. Pickens and William Blount, governor of the Southwest Territory, had recently returned from a meeting with the Chickasaw and Choctaw Indians (see
6Extracts of Correspondence on Indian Affairs, October 1792 (Washington Papers)
...he organized a corps of Chickasaw and Choctaw volunteers to serve with Andrew Jackson’s troops against the Creek Indians. One of his last public duties was as a commissioner for the 1830 Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek with the Choctaw Indians (see
7To George Washington from Arthur Campbell, 20 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
Cherokees during the Revolutionary War and an experienced negotiator with the Indians, accompanied Gov. William Blount to a conference at Nashville on 7–11 Aug. with the Chickasaw and Choctaw Indians (see Council Proceedings,
8To Thomas Jefferson from Josef de Jaudenes and Josef Ignacio de Viar, 12 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
: Papeles de Estado, legajo 3895); attested by Jaudenes and Viar. Enclosure: Treaty of Natchez between Spain and the Chickasaw and Choctaw Indians, 14 May 1792 (
9To Thomas Jefferson from Tobias Lear, 20 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
). (4) Treaty of Natchez between Spain and the Chickasaw and Choctaw Indians, 14 May 1792 (see note to first letter of
10From Thomas Jefferson to William Carmichael and William Short, 31 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
). (2) Treaty of Natchez between Spain and the Chickasaw and Choctaw Indians, 14 May 1792 (see note to letter on this subject from