From George Washington to the Cabinet, 1 June 1793
To the Cabinet
[Philadelphia] June 1st 1793.
Sir,
The propriety of sending an agent among the Chicasaws & Choctaws—talk of, but not resolved on the other day1—may undergo further consideration at your present meeting; and a decision come to for, or against the measure.2
Go: Washington
ALS, NhD.
1. The Cabinet discussed U.S. relations with the southern Indians during its meetings of 28 and 29 May ( , 154–55; Cabinet Opinion, 29 May).
2. For GW’s request for a Cabinet meeting on this date, see Tobias Lear to Thomas Jefferson, 31 May 1793. For the decision reached, see Cabinet Opinion on Sending an Agent to the Choctaws, 1 June 1793.