Funding: Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.
Content: A. L. S., Benjamin Hawkins; signed also by Andrew Pickens. Endorsed. 3 pp. Fo

Abstract

In reply to his letter of Apr. 13, handed them by Mr. Cowan, they inform him that the Indians are inclined more peaceably than ever before; that they withhold from him no information whereby the citizens can be injured in any way; a few Indians had been invited to meet there for ends beneficial to the U.S.; that they, Benjamin Hawkins, Andrew Pickens, and James Winchester, had been appointed Commissioners to mark the boundary lines between the Indians and the U. S.

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NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b11868616
Archives ID: 927
Emmet number: EM. 1170
Archives EAD ID: 275520
Archives Components ID: 579
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 69edc240-6a40-0139-c3f3-0242ac110002

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Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. "Letter to John Sevier, Governor of Tennessee" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1797. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/69edc240-6a40-0139-c3f3-0242ac110002

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Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. (1797). Letter to John Sevier, Governor of Tennessee Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/69edc240-6a40-0139-c3f3-0242ac110002

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