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To George Washington from Henry Knox, 11 July 1794

From Henry Knox

War department. July 11 1794

Sir.

I submit to your consideration a draft of a Speech to the Chickasaw Indians.1 I have the honor to be Sir, with the highest respect, Your obedient Servt

H. Knox

LS, DLC:GW; LB, DLC:GW.

1. A delegation of Chickasaw chiefs and warriors led by Piomingo (Mountain Leader) arrived at Philadelphia on 7 July. They met with GW at twelve o’clock on 11 July, at which time GW "Deliv’d a short speech to them. Smoak’d the peace-pipe, eat, drank &c. & then retir’d" (JPP description begins Dorothy Twohig, ed. The Journal of the Proceedings of the President, 1793–1797. Charlottesville, Va., 1981. description ends , 312). For a more extensive description of the ceremony, see the entry of 11 July in the longer of John Quincy Adams’s diaries for this period (MHi: Adams Papers).

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    “To George Washington from Henry Knox, 11 July 1794,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-16-02-0264-0001. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 16, 1 May–30 September 1794, ed. David R. Hoth and Carol S. Ebel. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011, p. 332.]

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