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Copy listing portions of land deeds giving the extent of Kentucky lands granted to Richard Henderson and Co. by the Cherokees. [Treaty of Sycamore Shoals].

Expresses that Virginia's plan to arm Native Americans will be injurious to the colonies' frontiers, specifically "sending an Agent … to engage two hundred of the Western Indians to act in Conjunction with their Troops … I apprehend it may occasion Hostilities against our frontier Settlements to our infinintely greater Damage..."

Deed granting Michilimackinac to the British. Includes four Chippewa chiefs' totem marks.

Concerning the accounts of an Indian treaty held at Fort Schuyler the previous year, "which we have certified agreeable to your desire … "

"Observations upon the commerce of Canada; particularly that part, which explains the Indian Fur Trade" Includes as Account of Sale from January 1777, interactions with Indians, and descriptions of furs and skins.

Regarding Native Americans in the South East particularly the Creek Nation and Spanish ambitions in the area.

Regarding reports of an expedition against the Miami nation and "some indian town on the Wabash." Major Hamtramck commanded a detachment sent from Fort Vincennes, [Indiana] against the town and had apparently succeeded and returned.

Requesting additional troops, to be "Sent to the Three Islelands, the Iron Works, Morgans & Holders New Station, & leave there Famylies exposed fifty or Sixty Miles in their front & non to Save."

Proposed treaty with Northwest Indians, movement of army down the Ohio River; "The Indians are determined not to talk of a peace so long as one Federal American lives on the N. West side of the Ohio … The English dictate the preliminaries to Indian treaties. This is beyond a doubt...The interest, the honor, the pride of the United States all bar an accomodation on the terms proposed."

Creeks remain peaceful with Cherokee; "They have … at three different times, rejected the war hatchet, which was sent them by the Cherokees … " Native Americans are not crossing boundary line, he has heard of Anthony Wayne's victory; "We have had reports in different ways that that Thunder bolt of war Genl Wayne has been victorious in an Action with the Indians, tho' they say with considerable loss."