Proclamation regarding the violation of treaties made with the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes - American History 1493-1945 - Adam Matthew Digital

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Field name	Value
Collection Reference Number	GLC02437.09397
From Archive Folder	The Henry Knox Papers [0096] July-September 1790
Title	Proclamation regarding the violation of treaties made with the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes
Date	26 August 1790
Author	Washington, George (1732-1799)
Additional authors	Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826) Randolph, Edmund (1753-1813)
Document Type	Military document; Government document
Content Description	President Washington warns citizens of the United States against violating certain treaties previously negotiated with Native American tribes. Instructs civil and military officers of the United States to govern themselves according to the treaties. Also signed by Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State (1790-1793), who has added the words "By the President" below Washington's signature. This draft proclamation is in the hand of Attorney General Edmund Randolph.
Subjects	President Government and Civics Treaty Diplomacy American Indian History Boundary or Property Dispute
People	Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826) Washington, George (1732-1799) Randolph, Edmund (1753-1813)
Place written	New York, New York
Theme	The Presidency; Government & Politics; Native Americans
Sub-collection	The Henry Knox Papers
Additional Information	Signer of the U.S. Constitution.
Copyright	The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module	Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859
Transcript	Show/hide Download PDF By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Whereas it hath at this time become peculiarly necessary, to warn the citizens of the United States against a violation of the treaties, made at Hopewell, on the river Keowah, on the third and tenth days of January, in the year of our lord 1786, between the United States, and the Choctaw and Chicasaw nations of Indians; and to enforce the act, intitled "an act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes," - copies of which [inserted: treaties and act] are hereto annexed: I have therefore thought fit to require, and do by these presents require, all officers of the United States, as well civil as military, and all other citizens and inhabitants thereof, to govern themselves according to the treaties and act aforesaid; as they will answer the contrary at their peril. Given under my hand, and the seal of the United States, at the city of New - York, this, twenty sixth day of August, in the year of our lord Go: Washington By the President Th: Jefferson

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