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
6To 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,
7Extracts 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
On 17 Oct. James Wilkinson had signed a convention with the Choctaw Indians agreeing to mark and establish the boundary line between the Choctaw Nation and the U.S. (
9To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne, 14 May 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
...takeover on 15 Apr. of the post and district of Ouachitas, along with the archives and public papers. Bowmar estimated the population of the district at 150 heads of families and noted that a village of about one hundred Choctaw Indians was located “eight or nine leagues from this place.”
10To James Madison from Willie Blount, 21 February 1810 (Madison Papers)
....S. For the next two years McKee was associated with Mathews in the abortive American attempts to annex portions of West and East Florida, and he also organized volunteer corps of Chickasaw and Choctaw Indians to serve with Andrew Jackson’s forces against the Creek Indians in 1814. At that time too, McKee regained his former position as agent to the Choctaw, and after 1818 he participated...