United States. War Department
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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
James Wilkinson letters
Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-982
Abstract
Small collection of correspondence and a few orders written by James Wilkinson, military officer, western land speculator, and governor of Louisiana, between 1792 and 1818. The majority of the letters were written at Fort Washington and Fort Hamilton in Ohio and relate to Indian affairs and military operations in the Northwest Territory during the 1790s. The correspondents include quartermaster general Samuel Hodgdon, Pennsylvania militia officer John Armstrong, and Lieutenant William...
Dates:
1792-1818
Oliver Wolcott letters
Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-921
Abstract
Thirteen letters, Mar. 11, 1795- Dec. 11, 1800, written by Oliver Wolcott, secretary of the treasury, to David Henley, general agent for the War Dept. in the Territory of the United States, South of the River Ohio, regarding public contracts for military and Indian supplies in what is now Tennessee.,The letters contain rules and regulations regarding the administration of contracts, as well as numerous directives regarding the choice of contractors to supply both the region and the Tellico...
Dates:
1795-1800
Timothy Pickering letters
Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-926
Abstract
Correspondence, dating mainly from 1795, of the secretary of war, Timothy Pickering, primarily with David Henley, War Dept. agent in the Territory of the United States, South of the River Ohio, but also with David Campbell, William Blount, and John McNairy, regarding Indian and militia affairs in what is now Tennessee. Much of the 1795 correspondence, including an extract of a letter to Gov. Blount and an Aug. 28, 1795, letter to Judge David Campbell, concerns the U.S. refusal to support the...
Dates:
1795-1798; 1795
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- Correspondence -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 1751-1800 2
- Indians of North America -- Tennessee -- Government relations -- Sources 2
- Military supplies -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 2
- Tellico Blockhouse Site (Tenn.) -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 2
- Cherokee Indians -- Government relations -- Sources 1
- Chickasaw Indians -- Government relations -- Sources 1
- Correspondence -- Ohio -- 1751-1800 1
- Correspondence -- Ohio -- 1801-1850 1
- Correspondence -- Washington (D.C.) -- 1751-1800 1
- Creek Indians -- Wars -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
- Defense contracts -- Tennessee -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
- Fort Hamilton (Ohio) -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
- Fort Washington (Ohio) -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
- Indian agents -- Tennessee -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
- Indian traders -- Tennessee -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
- Indians of North America -- Northwest, Old -- Government relations -- 18th century -- Sources 1
- Indians of North America -- Wars -- Ohio -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
- Indians of North America -- Wars -- Tennessee -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
- Northwest, Old -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
- Public contracts -- Tennessee -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
- Tennessee -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
- Territory of the United States, South of the River Ohio -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
- Territory of the United States, South of the River Ohio -- History -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
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