It is our desire for your people to lay down their arms.
Item
Type
Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
Title
It is our desire for your people to lay down their arms.
Description
Representatives of the Six Nations report on their mission to the Westward Indians to get them to agree to a peaceful settlement.
year created
1792
month created
11
day created
16
in collection
author note
Six Nations at Buffalo Creek
notable person/group
Brothers, People of the United States, and King's People
General Washington
hostile Indians
Six Nations
Western Indians
women and children
one people of one color
white people on this island
young warriors
head chiefs
Shawnee nation
interpreters
Sir William Johnston, agent from the King
messengers of peace
property owners of some land
Governor Simcoe
Fish Carrier
Cornplanter
Major Littletrates
British government
notable location
Buffalo Creek
river Ohio
Miami towns
the Glaize
Detroit
rapids of Miami
notable item/thing
council fire at Philadelphia
friendship
journey
sickness
string of wampum
pipe
future posterity
Unions
chain of friendship
lips
voice of the United States
instructions of Congress
property
advice
treaty at Fort Stanwix
bloody roads
dish and spoon
bloody tomahawk
agents from the United States
records, plans, maps, and documents
terms of peace
notable phrase
A few years after this purchase, the people of the States and the King's people broke apart and, we being pursuaded to take the King's part, became very bad for us. After a few years, the King was beat
then the States took possession of all the land the English formerly took from the French...While we was [sic] at the westward, we exerted ourselves to bring about peace. The fatigues we underwent are not small,. Now it is our desire for your people on the Ohio to lay down their arms, or otherwise it is all in vain what we have done.
document number
1792111690000
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