By a treaty signed at Pooshapuckanuck on the 16th of November, 1805, they accordingly ceded all their lands south of a line to be run from their and our boundary at the Omochita ea...
The papers already described therefore constitute the whole of the information on the subjects deposited in the public offices during the pr...
These papers have not yet been found in the office.
Should any want of power in the court to compel the rendering of testimony obstruct that full and impartial inquiry which alone can establis...
I have thought it would be important to obtain from the Indians such a cession in the neighborhood of these posts as might maintain a militi...
I have thought it best where urged by no peculiar necessity to leave to themselves and to the pressure of their own convenience only to come...
I ask their advice and consent as to its ratification.
I was disinclined to its ratification, and therefore did not at the last session of Congress lay it before the Senate for their advice.
I therefore now transmit the treaty for the consideration of the Senate, and I ask their advice and consent as to its ratification.
These designations not at all suiting us, their proposals were declined for that reason, and with an intimation that if their own convenienc...
The result has been an acquisition of so much only of what would have been acceptable as extends from the neighborhood of Saguina Bay to the...