Papers, 1791-1800.

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Papers, 1791-1800.

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Correspondence and papers dealing with treaties, agreements, and relations between the whites and the Choctaw and Creek Indians, including the exchange of prisoners, reparations for murders, inroads by whites and Indians, and compensation for stolen horses; establishment of post roads from Tennessee to the South Carolina border and to Natchez, Miss.; establishment of a trading post at Muscle Shoals, Ala.; and the establishment of the Indian Treaty Line from the Kentucky Trace to the Gaps of the Cumberland and along Campbell's line to the Clinch River, and the difficulties of the commissioners in deciding on this line. Among the correspondents are William Blount, Benjamin Hawkins, William McCleish, James McHenry, Samuel Mitchell, and James Robertson.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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McHenry, James, 1753-1816

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Hawkins, Benjamin, 1754-1816

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Mitchell, S. Augustus (Samuel Augustus), 1792-1868

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Henley, David, 1749-1823

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Robertson, James, 1742-1814

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McCleish, William.

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