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This is a copy of a journal of the proceedings between the United States commissioners appointed to treat with the southern Indians, Benjamin Hawkins, Andrew Pickens, Joseph Martin, and Lachlan McIntosh, and those Indian groups themselves, the Cherokees, Choctaws, and Chickasaws. The journal entries run from January 7, 1786 to January 15, 1786 and document negotiation talks between the commissioners and Chickasaw leaders such as Piomingo. Included are copies of correspondence between Colonel William Blount, agent for the state of North Carolina, and the commissioners, dated November 1785. Blount expresses his opposition to the federal commissioners' treaty with the Cherokees (ostensibly the Treaty of Hopewell, November 28, 1785), arguing that it violates the North Carolina constitution. A copy of a letter from the commissioners to Governor William Moultrie of South Carolina, dated February 6, 1786, is also included in this document. The commissioners inform Moultrie that they have entered into treaties with the Cherokees, Choctaws, and Chickasaws and encourage him to adhere to the terms of these treaties and previous ones, specifically requesting that Indian children that are being held in slavery by a man named Andrew Williamson be returned to their families. Treaties relative to this document include the one mentioned above, the Treaty of Hopewell with the Choctaw, January 3, 1786, and the Treaty of Hopewell with the Chickasaw, January 10, 1786.Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the Digital Library of Georgia in 2001, as part of GALILEO, funded in...

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