From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 9 December 1795
To the United States Senate
United States December 9th 1795.
Gentlemen of the Senate,
I lay before you for your consideration a treaty of peace which has been negociated by General Wayne, on behalf of the United States, with all the late hostile tribes of Indians, North West of the river Ohio; together with the instructions, which were given to General Wayne, and the proceedings at the place of treaty.1
Go: Washington
LS, DNA: RG 46, entry 54; LB, DLC:GW.
1. For the 3 Aug. 1795 Treaty of Greenville and the proceedings of the treaty, see ASP, Indian Affairs, 1:562–83. For Timothy Pickering’s instructions to Wayne of 8 April, see Knopf, Wayne Papers, 393–403. The Senate considered this treaty on 22 Dec. and “Resolved unanimously, that the Senate advise and consent to the ratification of the Treaty made by General Wayne, on behalf of the United States, with the tribes of Western Indians, communicated in the Message of the President of the ninth instant” (LB, DLC:GW; see also 197).