1. Pickering may have referred to the copy of the Treaty of Greenville that is in DLC:GW. For the official treaty, see DNA: RG 11, Ratified Indian Treaties, 1722–1869 (see also Kappler, Indian Treaties, description begins Charles J. Kappler, ed. Indian Affairs. Laws and Treaties. 5 vols. Washington, D.C., 1903–41. description ends 2:39–45; and ASP description begins Walter Lowrie et al., eds. American State Papers. Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States. 38 vols. Washington, D.C., Gales and Seaton, 1832–61. description ends , Indian Affairs, 1:562–63). The extract of Gen. Anthony Wayne’s letter of 9 Aug. states: “It is with infinite pleasure I now inform you that a treaty of peace between the United States of America and all the late hostile tribes of Indians North West of the Ohio was unanimously and voluntarily agreed to and cheerfully signed by all the Sachems and War Chiefs of the respective Nations on the 3rd and exchanged on the 7. instant a Copy of which I have now the honor to transmit.

“The original together with the minutes and proceedings of the General Council will be forwarded by a safe conveyance as soon as the proceedings can be engrossed, but this will require time especially as the Council is not yet closed” (DLC:GW; for the proceedings of the talks, see ASP description begins Walter Lowrie et al., eds. American State Papers. Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States. 38 vols. Washington, D.C., Gales and Seaton, 1832–61. description ends , Indian Affairs, 1:564–83).

2. For the territory ceded by the northwest Indians to the United States, see Pickering to GW, 21 Sept. (first letter), and notes 4 and 5. Additional cessions are listed in Article III of the treaty.

3. In 1776 Buckongahelas (c.1725–1805) broke with the Delaware chiefs who urged neutrality in the Revolutionary War, and since that time he had led numerous attacks against American settlements and participated in the Indian victories over American forces led by Josiah Harmar and Arthur St. Clair in 1790 and 1791. He was present at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794. In addition to the 1795 Treaty of Greenville, he signed treaties in 1803 and 1804. Misquacoonacaw (Red Pole; d. 1797) was a principal village chief of the Shawnees. His death occurred while he was returning from a meeting in Philadelphia. Augooshaway (Egushwa; Negushwa; c.1730–c.1800) had come to prominence as an Ottawa war chief by 1778. He was particularly active in organizing resistance to the advance of Wayne’s army and was wounded at the Battle of Fallen Timbers. Pickering had been in Canada in 1793 while serving as one of the commissioners appointed to negotiate a treaty with the northwest Indians.