- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Letter] 1793 June 17, Withe [i.e., Wythe] County, [Virginia ? to] General [Daniel ?] Smith / W[illia]m Blount : a machine-readable transcription of an image
- Creator:
- Territory of the United States, South of the River Ohio. Governor (1790-1796 : Blount)
- Publisher:
- Manuscript held by the Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN, Tennessee Historical Society, box 2, folder n/a, document tl021.
- Date of Original:
- 1793-06-17
- Subject:
- Indians of North America--Government relations
Indians of North America--Warfare - Location:
- United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434
- Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This document is a letter from William Blount (Governor of Tennessee, 1790-1795) to General (Daniel ?) Smith, dated June 17, 1793. Blount states that he has been informed that the President and Secretary of War are awaiting his arrival in order to discuss action against the Indians in the South. He suggests that a full-scale war is the only way to coerce the Indian nations into acting in accordance with the wishes of the U.S. Blount also discusses distributing arms to the frontier settlers.
Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Libraries in 2001, as part of GALILEO, funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. - Local Identifier:
- ths021
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_ths021
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_ths021#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_ths021/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], Tennessee Historical Society, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia
- Extent:
- 3 pages/leaves
- Holding Institution:
- Tennessee State Library and Archives
- Rights:
-
Page: [1]
Withe County
June 17th 1793
Dear Sir
I have just receved [received] a letter from Mr Allison by Mr David Deadrick dated the
15 th May in which he informs me that I am anxiously expected by the Presdent [President] and the Secretary of War and that he has every Reason to believe that on my arrival something decisive will be determined on against the Southern Indians -- If anything depends on me my [unclear text: Easterns ] in favour [favor] of the Southwestern Frontiers will not be wanting -- a vigorous national war only can bring the Indians to act as they ought, and that I hope we shall have this Fall. -- Had you not best postpone the sending any part of Kerr' s Company to the Passing of Cumberland until the Time advertised for the Guard to meet the families and then if Nothing is done with Kerr let him as his Irishmen make a Part of it. -- I do not see how any of the arms
Page: [2]
can be safely got to Cumberland. -- I would advise the letting the Frontier People of Washington District have such as they want -- A Mr. Freeman a friend of Mr. Aukard, a Clerk in the war office is appointed quarter Master [quartermaster] but he will not shortly be out that is he will not leave Philadelphia before my arrival.
I shall pass the Mountain with Mrs Blount who with her Party has thus far arrived safe the day after tomorrow and the next day leave her and turn of [off] for Richmond from whence I shall take the stage -- I am and shall be truly anxious to hear from you pray enbrace [embrace] every opportunity to gratify me say to relieve my anxiety -- I will be back as soon as possible. -- I entreat you to advise, admonish and if possible govern Mr. [unclear text: Ogdin ] for his own good with precise esteem,
I am & c [et cetera] & c [et cetera]
[Signed] Wm [William] Blount
Gen. [General] Smith
Page: [3]
General Smith Knoxville
Capt. [Captain] Bryan
Published in the --
July 1901 American Historical Magazine Vol [Volume] 6, No [Number] 3, page 224
June 17th, 1793
Going East to see the President of the U.S.