Evans, Griffith, 1760-1845.
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Griffith Evans was bon in Warwick, Chester Co., Pa. During the American Revolutionary War, he served as clerk in the medical corps of the Continental Army. After the close of the war, he was appointed secretary and storekeeper of the Pennsylvania commissioners who represented the state at the negotiations with the Six Nations nations at Fort Stanwix and the Wyandots, Delawares, Ottawas, and Chippewas at Fort McIntosh (January 1785). Evans was charged with delivering the diplomatic gifts to the Indians. In 1787, he accompanied Timothy Pickering to the Wyoming Valley, and in 1796 lived in Paris. He later returned to Philadelphia where he purchased a house on the Germantown district.
Griffith Evans (1760-1845) was born in Warwick, Pa., served as a teamster in the Revolutionary War, and held a variety of secretarial and surveying posts with the state of Pennsylvania after the war. In 1797, he was appointed Secretary of the joint arbitration Commission provided for by Jay's Treaty to resolve the obstacles of state courts to the collection of prewar debts by British creditors.
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Delaware Indians
Fort McIntosh (Pa.), Treaty of, 1785
Fort Stanwix (Rome, N.Y.), Treaty of, 1784
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Ojibwa Indians
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