I have thought best to await a survey of the territory before it is decided on what particular spot on the northeastern ...
I do appoint them the said Thomas Johnson, Daniel Carroll and David Stuart, Commissioners for surveying the District of ...
I lay before you a representation of the charge' d'affaires of France.
I recommend the same to your consideration, that I may be enabled to give to it such answer as may best comport with the...
GO. WASHINGTON.
the white people settled on the frontiers had openly violated the said boundary by intruding on the Indian lands
I shall conceive myself bound to exert the powers intrusted to me by the Constitution in order to carry into faithful ex...
the United States formed a treaty with the Cherokees in November, 1785
the treaty with the Creeks may be regarded as the main foundation of the future peace and prosperity of the Southwestern...
It is to be expected that it will also in its consequences be the means of firmly attaching the Creeks and the neighbori...
It contains a regular, full, and definitive relinquishment on the part of the Creek Nation of the Oconee land.
I have directed the commissioner to whom the charge of adjusting this treaty has been committed to lay before you such p...
But although the most valuable of the disputed land is included, yet there is a certain claim of Georgia...
It is therefore agreed between the said parties that in the event of any such obstructions happening it shall be lawful ...
Will such an article be proper?
It therefore appears to be important to form a secret article of a treaty similar to the one which accompanies this mess...
The trade of the Indians is a main mean of their political management.
Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives:
