War Office. September 12, 1785
Subtitle: The secretary at war reports, that it may be a subject worthy the attention of Congress, whether it would not be necessary to appoint some confidential person, with a small salary, either resident with the Six Nations, or upon the frontiers nearest to them, to whom they might apply, as the intermediate person between them and Congress ...
Contributors: Kirkland, Samuel, 1741-1808.; United States. Continental Congress.; Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1785
Place of publication: [New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Iroquois Indians -- Government relations.; Indians of North America -- Government relations -- To 1789.; Indians of North America -- New York (State)
Notes: Evans 19335
Journals of the Continental Congress, 504
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Followed by: The committee to whom was referred a letter from Mr. Kirkland, of the 14th of September, together with its enclosures, submit the following report ...
"The broadside could not have been issued before October 11 [1785]"--Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 29, p. 822.
Imprint from Evans. Formerly ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in JCC, v. 29, p. 929 (#504); but later volumes reject Dunlap as printer. Cf. JCC, v. 33, p. 753.
LC copy annotated on verso: Report of Secretary of War, and comee. of Congress--propriety of appointing a person as agent among the Indians, to whom applications may be made as the intermediate person between them and Congress.