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Washington Papers Consolidated Index | I | Indians
The Manuscript [Diaries 1:37]+
[Diary entry: 8 September 1784] [Diaries 4:16]+
[Diary entry: 12 September 1784] [Diaries 4:19]
[Diary entry: 12 September 1784] [Diaries 4:20]+
[Diary entry: 13 September 1784] [Diaries 4:21]+
[Diary entry: 14 September 1784] [Diaries 4:22]
[Diary entry: 20 September 1784] [Diaries 4:29]
[Diary entry: 22 September 1784] [Diaries 4:38]+
[Diary entry: 24 September 1784] [Diaries 4:43]+
[Diary entry: 4 October 1784] [Diaries 4:59]
From Captain Joshua Davis, 27 July 1775 [Revolutionary War Series 1:180]+
To Major Christopher French, 31 August 1775 [Revolutionary War Series 1:390]+
From John Adams, 6 January 1776 [Revolutionary War Series 3:37]
From Major General Philip Schuyler, 9–10 March 1776 [Revolutionary War Series 3:443]
From the Salem Committee of Safety, 25 March 1776 [Revolutionary War Series 3:539]+
From Major General William Heath, 26 August 1776 [Revolutionary War Series 6:133]+
From the Continental Congress Executive Committee, 9 January 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 8:21]+
From Brigadier General Samuel Holden Parsons, 10 February 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 8:302]+
To John Hancock, 29 March 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 9:10]
From Major General William Heath, 1 April 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 9:39]+
From Colonel William Grayson, 8 April 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 9:87]+
From Brigadier General Lachlan McIntosh, 13 April 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 9:149]
To Owen Biddle, 14 April 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 9:159]
From Major General William Heath, 23 April 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 9:246]+
From Brigadier General George Clinton, 1 May 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 9:318]
General Orders, 7 May 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 9:361]
From Brigadier General Alexander McDougall, 19 May 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 9:480]+
From Major General Benjamin Lincoln, 22 May 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 9:499]
From Major General Horatio Gates, 24 May 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 9:515]
From Major General Philip Schuyler, 9 June 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 9:655]+
To Brigadier General John Stark, 5 August 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 16:257]+
To Brigadier General Jacob Bayley, 11 September 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 16:566]+
To John Jay, 13 December 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 18:406]+
To Alexander Henderson, 20 December 1784 [Confederation Series 2:198]+
From Henry Knox, 13 May 1789 [Presidential Series 2:290]
– Aaron Burr's views on [1 reference]
– accompany Continental army [3 references]
– accompany GW down Ohio [2 references]
– accused of mistreating prisoners [5 references]
– adopt white women [1 reference]
– affairs in Georgia [1 reference]
– agents [3 references]
– agents for [22 references]
– agents to Creek [2 references]
– aid British [3 references]
– aided by Great Britain [1 reference]
– aid escaped prisoners [1 reference]
– alcoholism among [1 reference]
– American commissioners [27 references]
– American conferences [33 references]
– American employment [40 references]
– American expeditions against [30 references]
– American fears of [2 references]
– American negotiations with [33 references]
– American opinions of [3 references]
– American policy toward [25 references]
– American relations [44 references]
– ammunition for [1 reference]
– and Abraham Bosomworth [2 references]
– and agriculture [1 reference]
– and Black Boys [1 reference]
– and bounties for [1 reference]
– and bounty lands [3 references]
– and Braddock's campaign [7 references]
– and Braddock's defeat [1 reference]
– and British [6 references]
– and British-American relations [1 reference]
– and British mediation [3 references]
– and Canada [4 references]
– and Chateaubriand [1 reference]
– and Cherry Valley raid [6 references]
– and Christopher Gist [8 references]
– and commercial relations with U.S. [1 reference]
– and council of war [1 reference]
– and deployment of New Army [3 references]
– and deserters [1 reference]
– and Dunkers [2 references]
– and Dunmore's War [11 references]
– and Edmond Atkin [5 references]
– and Fort Necessity campaign [20 references]
– and French [15 references]
– and French encroachment in Ohio country [1 reference]
– and frontier settlement [1 reference]
– and fur trade [2 references]
– and George Croghan [4 references]
– and George Rogers Clark [1 reference]
– and grand council at the Glaize [1 reference]
– and Grant's defeat [4 references]
– and Great Britain [12 references]
– and horses [3 references]
– and Indian agent for Virginia [12 references]
– and James Grant's defeat [4 references]
– and John Forbes [2 references]
– and Kentucky frontier [1 reference]
– and lands [9 references]
– and land titles [1 reference]
– and liquor [6 references]
– and liquor consumption [1 reference]
– and Mason-Dixon Line [1 reference]
– and Nathaniel Gist [1 reference]
– and Niagara [1 reference]
– and negotiations with U.S. [5 references]
– and North Carolina lands [2 references]
– and Panton, Leslie & Company [1 reference]
– and Pearis venture [2 references]
– and plan of civilization [1 reference]
– and prisoners [4 references]
– and public lands [1 reference]
– and Richard Pearis [3 references]
– and scalping [16 references]
– and settlers [4 references]
– and slaves [2 references]
– and southern agent [5 references]
– and St. Clair's defeat [5 references]
– and taxation [1 reference]
– and Thomas Bullitt [3 references]
– and trade and traders [7 references]
– and trade with U.S. [2 references]
– and Treaty of New York [1 reference]
– and U.S. trade [2 references]
– and Vincennes land grants [2 references]
– and western land speculations [1 reference]
– and William Cromwell [1 reference]
– and Yazoo land companies [3 references]
– anger of [1 reference]
– appeals from [1 reference]
– applicants for appointment as Indian agent [1 reference]
– apprehensions of war with [1 reference]
– armed by British [5 references]
– arms for [8 references]
– Armstrong expedition [1 reference]
– arrive in camp [2 references]
– as allies [2 references]
– as British allies [7 references]
– as captives [4 references]
– as guides [1 reference]
– as military allies [4 references]
– as prisoners [15 references]
– as prisoners of other Indians [1 reference]
– as prisoners of war [4 references]
– as runners [2 references]
– as scouts [9 references]
– as servants [1 reference]
– as sources of intelligence [1 reference]
– as spies [7 references]
– as threats to Americans [6 references]
– Atakapa Indians [1 reference]
– at Battle of Monongahela [1 reference]
– at Mount Vernon [1 reference]
– at Plowed Hill [1 reference]
– atrocities against [1 reference]
– atrocities by [3 references]
– attack Americans in Canada [3 references]
– attacked and mistreated [9 references]
– attack forts [5 references]
– attack frontier [6 references]
– attack John Doughty [2 references]
– attacks [12 references]
– attacks by [134 references]
– attack settlements [4 references]
– attacks in Pennsylvania [1 reference]
– attacks on [2 references]
– attacks on American frontier settlements [14 references]
– attacks on Americans [15 references]
– attacks on frontier [1 reference]
– attacks on frontier settlers [15 references]
– attacks on N.Y. towns [4 references]
– attacks on Pa. frontier [6 references]
– attack U.S. peace mission [1 reference]
– attempts to enlist aid of [26 references]
– attempts to seize lands of [1 reference]
– attitudes toward [1 reference]
– attitudes toward Americans [4 references]
– at treaty [1 reference]
– badge to be worn by [1 reference]
– battles with [4 references]
– books on origins of [1 reference]
– bounty on hostile Indians [1 reference]
– bounty paid on scalps [1 reference]
– British agents [1 reference]
– British compared to [1 reference]
– British destruction of Kittanning [1 reference]
– British efforts to recruit [11 references]
– British employment [22 references]
– British relations [29 references]
– British support of [1 reference]
– British traders among [1 reference]
– British use of [13 references]
– burn fort [1 reference]
– burn speeches [1 reference]
– burn William Crawford at stake [1 reference]
– campaign against (Sullivan's expedition) [59 references]
– Canadian [1 reference]
– captives of [27 references]
– captured [3 references]
– captured by Americans [1 reference]
– capture prisoners [2 references]
– Carlisle council [3 references]
– carry letters [1 reference]
– casualties [15 references]
– casualties in northern campaign [1 reference]
– Catawba [1 reference]
– chase buffalo [1 reference]
– chastised [1 reference]
– Cherokee [7 references]
– Chickasaw [7 references]
– children attend school [4 references]
– Chippewa [1 reference]
– Choctaw [7 references]
– Christianity among [3 references]
– Christopher Gist's report on [2 references]
– clothing for [8 references]
– combat effectiveness of [2 references]
– comments by Anthony Wayne on [1 reference]
– commissioner of Indian affairs [1 reference]
– commissioners [20 references]
– commissioners from Virginia to [2 references]
– communications from GW [1 reference]
– communications to GW [1 reference]
– complaints about U.S. traders [1 reference]
– complaints against U.S. [2 references]
– complaints from [3 references]
– conditions among [1 reference]
– confederacy of [1 reference]
– conference with [2 references]
– Connolly's negotiations with [2 references]
– cost of pacifying [2 references]
– council at Buffalo Creek [3 references]
– councils of [10 references]
– Creek [8 references]
– critical of British [2 references]
– criticism of [6 references]
– criticized as mercenary [1 reference]
– dancing and music [1 reference]
– dancing and singing at Fort Duquesne [1 reference]
– deception by [1 reference]
– defenses against [3 references]
– defenses against attack by [1 reference]
– Delaware [7 references]
– delegations of [8 references]
– deployment of [1 reference]
– depredations [6 references]
– depredations against [5 references]
– depredations by [21 references]
– depredations of [125 references]
– description of tribal government [1 reference]
– descriptions of appearance [1 reference]
– desert British [1 reference]
– deserters go with [1 reference]
– destruction of Kittanning [1 reference]
– difficulty of retaining until needed [2 references]
– diplomacy among [1 reference]
– dislike Thomas Bullitt going into their lands [1 reference]
– disposition [29 references]
– disposition toward Americans [35 references]
– disputed boundaries with [2 references]
– disputes over relations with [1 reference]
– distinguishing badges worn by [2 references]
– dress [1 reference]
– drums for [2 references]
– eat dogs [1 reference]
– education of [7 references]
– encampments of [1 reference]
– end of French alliance [1 reference]
– engagements with enemy [3 references]
– escorted from camp [1 reference]
– escorted to Canada [2 references]
– establishment of trade with [2 references]
– estimate of expenses for [3 references]
– evangelized [1 reference]
– executed by Americans [1 reference]
– expeditions against [77 references]
– expeditions by [1 reference]
– expenditures for council [1 reference]
– expenses of treaties [1 reference]
– expenses of war with [1 reference]
– extinction of [1 reference]
– families of [2 references]
– Fauquier refuses to send envoy to [1 reference]
– Five Nations [1 reference]
– flee angry dogs [1 reference]
– food and beer for [1 reference]
– Fort Loudoun as rendezvous of [1 reference]
– Fort Necessity campaign [20 references]
– forts for protection of [1 reference]
– forts overawe [1 reference]
– French allies [1 reference]
– French Indians discover new road [1 reference]
– French intrigues among [1 reference]
– French recruitment of [1 reference]
– French relations with [1 reference]
– friendliness of [2 references]
– frontier attacks [19 references]
– frontier movements and dispositions [8 references]
– funds for [8 references]
– funds for agents [1 reference]
– George Croghan's peace mission to Shawnee [1 reference]
– gifts [4 references]
– gifts to [2 references]
– given money by GW [1 reference]
– gnaw provisions [3 references]
– goods for [17 references]
– grand council of [1 reference]
– grant land [1 reference]
– guides for [1 reference]
– GW lacks right to treat with [3 references]
– GW meets with [5 references]
– GW on [1 reference]
– GW reports to Forbes on [1 reference]
– GW's addresses to [1 reference]
– GW's message to northwestern Indians [1 reference]
– GW's policy toward [7 references]
– GW's proposal to copy war tactics of [1 reference]
– GW's view on treaties with [1 reference]
– GW's views on [4 references]
– GW's views on relations with [3 references]
– GW's views on war with [1 reference]
– GW to direct war routes [1 reference]
– GW visits camp of [1 reference]
– help with shipbuilding [1 reference]
– Henry Knox reports on [2 references]
– Henry Knox's reports on relations with [1 reference]
– Henry Knox's views on [1 reference]
– home of the Blinking Woman [1 reference]
– horses for [2 references]
– horses of [1 reference]
– hostilities against Great Britain [1 reference]
– hostilities in Ohio Valley [6 references]
– hostilities with U.S. [1 reference]
– hostility of [1 reference]
– illnesses of [2 references]
– immigration into territory of [1 reference]
– impact of war with [1 reference]
– imposture [1 reference]
– in American service [8 references]
– in 1753 and 1754 expeditions [11 references]
– in 1759 expedition [1 reference]
– in Brazil [1 reference]
– in British service [30 references]
– in Canada [8 references]
– Indian agents [2 references]
– Indian mounds [1 reference]
– Indian prisoners at Fort Washington (Ohio) [2 references]
– Indian shout [1 reference]
– Indian war prevents surveying western lands [1 reference]
– Industry (British schooner) [1 reference]
– in Florida [1 reference]
– in French and Indian War [2 references]
– in Illinois County, Va. [1 reference]
– in Mexico [1 reference]
– in Ohio country [2 references]
– in Pennsylvania [3 references]
– in popular culture [1 reference]
– Insignia [1 reference]
– instructions concerning [1 reference]
– instructions regarding [10 references]
– instructions to [6 references]
– intelligence [4 references + 25 subentries]
– intelligence from [11 references]
– intelligence regarding [10 references]
– interpreters [4 references]
– interpreters for [16 references]
– in the American service [2 references]
– in the British service [6 references]
– in the Spanish colonies [1 reference]
– intrigues among [7 references]
– in Vincennes expedition [1 reference]
– jailed as spies [7 references]
– John Connolly's contempt for [1 reference]
– join British [2 references]
– join Loyalists [2 references]
– Kaskaskia [2 references]
– Kickapoo [1 reference]
– kill cattle [1 reference]
– killed [2 references]
– kill messengers [1 reference]
– kill William Crawford [1 reference]
– labor on mill [2 references]
– land claims [1 reference]
– land reserved for [1 reference]
– lands in Pennsylvania must be purchased by colony [1 reference]
– land titles extinguished [1 reference]
– languages [2 references]
– line of forts suggested [1 reference]
– liquor [2 references]
– liquor for [2 references]
– list of tribes not included in Treaty of Fort Harmar [1 reference]
– Lord's Prayer in Indian languages [1 reference]
– Loyalist relations [2 references]
– Lutheran missions to [1 reference]
– make peace [2 references]
– massacred [1 reference]
– massacres by [1 reference]
– massacres of [2 references]
– may turn against British [2 references]
– medals for [2 references]
– medical care for [1 reference]
– method of warfare condemned [1 reference]
– Miami [8 references]
– military abilities [1 reference]
– military action against [1 reference]
– military strength of [1 reference]
– militia expeditions against [1 reference]
– Mingo [1 reference]
– “Ministerial Line” as a temporary expedient to quiet them [1 reference]
– misbehavior of [2 references]
– mismanagement of [7 references]
– missionaries to [5 references]
– mode of war [1 reference]
– money for repelling [1 reference]
– money given to [1 reference]
– Moravian [1 reference]
– movements of [21 references]
– murdered [3 references]
– murdered by whites [4 references]
– murder settlers [3 references]
– murders of [18 references]
– mutilation by [1 reference]
– Nathaniel Gist and the Cherokee [1 reference]
– need for [12 references]
– negotiations and treaties with [4 references]
– negotiations concerning in North Carolina [1 reference]
– negotiations with [42 references]
– New York-Genesee Land Company's negotiations with [1 reference]
– no signs of on Braddock Road [1 reference]
– numbers estimated [2 references]
– of British forces [6 references + 9 subentries]
– of Canada [1 reference + 1 subentry]
– of the Northwest Territory [5 references + 67 subentries]
– of the South [18 subentries]
– of the Southwest Territory [3 subentries]
– Ohio River set as Indian boundary [1 reference]
– Ohio tribes [1 subentry]
– on frontiers [3 references]
– on Georgia frontier [1 reference]
– on Northwest frontier [2 references]
– on 1770 Ohio journey [10 references]
– on Quebec expedition [4 references]
– on scout [7 references]
– on ships [1 reference]
– on southern frontier [12 references]
– on the southwest frontier [3 references]
– on Wabash River [3 references]
– opinion of Arthur St. Clair [1 reference]
– opinion of whites [1 reference]
– ordered to take prisoners [6 references]
– orders regarding [2 references]
– paint for [1 reference]
– papers concerning [1 reference]
– passive [1 reference]
– paths [7 references]
– Pennsylvania trade with [1 reference]
– plans for education of [2 references]
– plied with liquor [1 reference]
– point out best lands [1 reference]
– popular opinion on [1 reference]
– position of defended [5 references]
– presents to [10 references]
– pressure of population against [1 reference]
– pretended friendship of [1 reference]
– prisoners of [18 references]
– proclamation concerning [1 reference]
– Proclamation of 1763 a temporary expedient to quiet [1 reference]
– proclamations to [1 reference]
– proposals for civilizing [5 references]
– proposals for dealing with [1 reference]
– proposed expedition against [8 references]
– prospective attacks on [13 references]
– prospective expeditions against [5 references]
– provide intelligence [4 references]
– provisions and supplies for [37 references]
– provisions for treaties [1 reference]
– punishment for giving liquor to [1 reference]
– purchase of licenses to trade with [1 reference]
– purchases of land from [1 reference]
– pursuit of [6 references]
– Quaker address to [1 reference]
– raid frontier [3 references]
– raids in Maryland [1 reference]
– ratification of treaties with [1 reference]
– reconnaissance of [1 reference]
– recruited for American army [5 references]
– recruiting among [2 references]
– recruitment of [1 reference]
– refuse presents [1 reference]
– refuse to travel new road [1 reference]
– regulation of relations with [2 references]
– relations among tribes [3 references]
– relations with [8 subentries]
– religion of and missionaries to [2 references]
– religious references [4 references]
– renegades of [3 references]
– renounce claims to land [3 references]
– reported Oneida attack on Brant's force [2 references]
– reports concerning [8 references]
– reports on [5 references]
– reports on activities of [5 references]
– reports on depredations of [2 references]
– reports on western tribes [3 references]
– resist cultural extinction [1 reference]
– restrictions of settlement on lands of [1 reference]
– retaliation against [1 reference]
– return home [1 reference]
– return of goods for [1 reference]
– returns of [3 references]
– returns of southern Indians [3 references]
– reward offered for killers of [1 reference]
– rewards for prisoners and scalps [2 references]
– rights of [1 reference]
– rights to lands [1 reference]
– rumors of attacks [4 references]
– sale of alcohol to [1 reference]
– sales of lands of [1 reference]
– Sandy Creek expedition against [1 reference]
– scalped by whites [3 references]
– scalping incidents [2 references]
– scalps taken by white men [2 references]
– schools for [1 reference]
– scouted [2 references]
– seek education [1 reference]
– seek protection [1 reference]
– Seneca [11 references]
– sent at wrong season [2 references]
– settlements [1 reference]
– Shawnee [2 references]
– Six Nations [6 references]
– Six Nations sell land [1 reference]
– skirmishes with [59 references]
– skirmish with Virginia Regiment [4 references]
– slave escapes from [2 references]
– Southern [1 reference + 11 subentries]
– southern Indians despise British [1 reference]
– southern tribes [4 references + 6 subentries]
– sovereignty of [1 reference]
– sow confusion [1 reference]
– Spain's policy toward [1 reference]
– speeches and messages [14 references]
– speeches by [5 references]
– speeches to [2 references]
– speeches to and from [4 references]
– spy activities [2 references]
– steal horses [1 reference]
– stop surveying of Mason-Dixon line [1 reference]
– strategy and tactics [2 references]
– strength of [4 references]
– superintendent of Indian affairs [3 references]
– supplies for [65 references]
– tactics against [1 reference]
– tactics of [3 references]
– take captives [3 references]
– take horses [1 reference]
– take scalps [2 references]
– take up the hatchet [1 reference]
– their grant to George Croghan [2 references]
– theories on origins [1 reference]
– Thomas Bullitt visits Shawnee villages [1 reference]
– Thomas Jefferson's views on [1 reference]
– threaten Montreal [2 references]
– threats [38 references]
– threat to American frontier [65 references + 6 subentries]
– to be sent against Indian towns on Ohio [1 reference]
– towns [2 references]
– traders with [3 references]
– trade with [31 references]
– trade with Spanish agents [1 reference]
– trade with U.S. [8 references]
– trading posts [1 reference]
– trails [1 reference]
– treaties with [88 references]
– treaties with U.S. [1 reference]
– treatment [4 references]
– treatment by British [1 reference]
– treatment of [1 reference]
– treatment of prisoners [2 references]
– treat with Americans [3 references]
– treat with Continental Congress [1 reference]
– treaty at Nashville [1 reference]
– Treaty of Fort Harmar [1 reference]
– tribal relations [5 references]
– Twightwees [1 reference]
– U.S. boundary with [1 reference]
– usefulness of [9 references]
– U.S. relations with Creek [11 references]
– utter scalp halloo [1 reference]
– vessels of [2 references]
– views on [2 subentries]
– villages of [1 reference]
– Virginia legislature comments on [1 reference]
– visits to [7 subentries]
– vocabularies [12 references + 1 subentry]
– Wabash [4 references]
– wampum [6 references]
– wampum belts and strings [2 references]
– war against southern colonies [1 reference]
– wars in Georgia [1 reference]
– way of life [1 reference]
– wear out their moccasins [1 reference]
– well-disposed [1 reference]
– western tribes seek British friendship [1 reference]
– white men dressed as [4 references]
– whites at fault in Indian outbreak [3 references]
– whites at fault in skirmishes with [2 references]
– whites dress as [1 reference]
– whites forbidden to buy or steal presents given to [1 reference]
– William Johnson settles his people on Indian lands [1 reference]
– Winchester council [1 reference]
– with American army [2 references]
– writings about [1 reference]
– Wyandot [6 references]
See also Cayuga [matches multiple entries]
See also Chippewa [matches multiple entries]
See also Commissioners for Indian affairs
See also Huron [matches multiple entries]
See also Kickapoo [matches multiple entries]
See also Miami [matches multiple entries]
See also Ottawa [matches multiple entries]
See also Ouiatanon (Wea) [link unavailable]
See also Shawnee [matches multiple entries]
See also United States: Indian affairs
See also United States: Indian commissioners
See also United States commissioners to southern Indians [link unavailable]
See also Wabash [matches multiple entries]