Conference minutes, 1768 October 18.

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Conference minutes, 1768 October 18.

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Copy of the minutes of a conference at Fort Stanwix with the Tuscarora Indians regarding a renewed complaint filed by the chief. In 1766, while traveling through Pennsylvania, six horses were stolen from the Indians at a value of £50. Sir William Johnson told the chief at the time to write to the governor of Pennsylvania for a settlement. The governor consented and a settlement was to be paid in response to the renewed complaint. Signed by Guy Johnson, deputy agent and secretary. Witnessed by Sir William Johnson, Richard Peters and James Tilghmen, commissioners of the province of Pennsylvania, and by Frederick Smyth, Chief Justice of New Jersey.

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American Periodical Series I

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Peters, Richard, 1744-1828

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Richard Peters (June 22, 1744 – August 22, 1828) was a Pennsylvania lawyer, Continental Army soldier, Federalist politician, author and United States District Judge. Before his federal judicial service in the United States District Court for the District of Pennsylvania, Peters served as secretary of the Continental Board of War, delegate to the Congress of the Confederation and as member and speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and later the Pennsylvania State Senate. Born at...

Johnson, William, 1715-1774

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Smyth, Frederick, 1819-1899

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Frederick Smyth (1819-1899), thirty-second governor of New Hampshire, was born in Candia, NH. In 1839, he moved to Manchester, NH where he was employed for ten years as clerk and proprietor of a store. Smyth became Manchester city clerk in 1849 and later served four terms as Manchester's mayor. He was elected governor in 1865 and reelected in 1866. Smyth later served as one of the board of managers of the National Homes for Disabled Soldiers and as president of the Concord and Montreal Railroad....

Johnson, Guy, approximately 1740-1788

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Superintendent of Indian Affairs; loyalist. From the description of Conference minutes, 1768 October 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122519721 Guy Johnson, nephew of Sir William Johnson, served as Deputy Superintendant of Indian Affairs in the northeastern American colonies and became Superintendant in 1774 when his uncle died. In 1775, at the outbreak of the American Revolution, Johnson fled to Canada and sailed to England. He returned to America in 1776, where he direct...

Tilghman, James

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Businessman of Baltimore, Md. From the description of James Tilghman correspondence, 1829. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980627 ...