1From 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
2Extracts 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