1Enclosure, 15 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
...by the British government on the Great Lakes were not actually surrendered until after...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Harison and other District Attorneys, 12 August 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
...states to settle on “the banks of the Great Lakes, the Ohio, the Missouri, and the Mississippi...
3From George Washington to Lansdowne, 7 November 1791 (Washington Papers)
...on the Mississippi River and a northern one along the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River (
4To Alexander Hamilton from Medad Mitchell, [9 February 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
..., former captain of a British vessel on the Great Lakes, was engaged in trade in 1779 when...
5Henry Knox to Tobias Lear, 24 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
...to trade with British outposts on the Great Lakes and to travel between Fort Niagara and...
6To George Washington from William Smith, 25 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
...not produce the projected volume on the Indians of the Great Lakes before his death in 1803.
7To John Adams from Benjamin Lincoln, 11 September 1793 (Adams Papers)
...with the King, about ten years since, the great lakes and the waters which unite them, were by...
8Enclosure: Observations on the Potomac River, 3 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
...The fur and peltry trade of the great Lakes may be brought to the City of Washington, through...
9John Adams to Abigail Adams, 18 January 1794 (Adams Papers)
...an open Winter. When the large Tracts and great Lakes in the North West are not wet and...
10To George Washington from Timothy Pickering, 6 March 1795 (Washington Papers)
.... I confess that no one position on the great lakes strikes me as more important; because it...
11The Defence No. X, [26 August 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
...other. How indeed was the precise middle line of those great lakes to be always known?
12To George Washington from William Alexander, 15 March 1796 (Washington Papers)
..., eastward of the Mississippi, westward and southward of the Great Lakes and
13To George Washington from James McHenry, 28 November 1796 (Washington Papers)
...I fought his battles on the Borders of our great Lake—for my name has been well known to your...
14To George Washington from Elkanah Watson, 10 February 1797 (Washington Papers)
...improvement of our interior water to the great Lakes will undoubtedly divert your main object:...