John Jay Papers

From John Jay to the Indians of St. Regis, 10 August 1795

To the Indians of St. Regis

[New York 10 Augt. 1795]

Brothers

I send you this Message to fulfil the Promise which the Agents for the State who met you in this City last Winter then made to you.

Brothers

This promise was that we would meet You on the Business of the Lands which you say belong to You.

Brothers

I now inform you that we will meet you and hold the proposed Treaty at Fort George at the South end of Lake George on the Eighteenth day of September next.1

Brothers

I hope that we shall then meet with Hearts and Minds well disposed to each other and in the mean time I wish you Peace

John Jay

LS, marked “Duplicate”, PC: Cowan Auctions.

1. For the conference held between New York state and the Akwesasne Mohawk, see the editorial note “Indian Affairs under Jay’s Governorship,” above.

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    From John Jay to the Indians of St. Regis, 10 August 1795
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    10 August 1795

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    “From John Jay to the Indians of St. Regis, 10 August 1795,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jay/01-06-02-0151. [Original source: The Selected Papers of John Jay, vol. 6, 1794–1798, ed. Elizabeth M. Nuxoll. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020, p. 345.]