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Manuscript DS, signed “Wm. H. Harrison, A D C,“ one page, 7.5 x 3, July 29, 1795. Receipt reading “Greenville, The commissary will issue for the Delaware’s thirty nine pounds of flour & beef.” Signed at the conclusion by missing lower right corner tip, otherwise fine condition. Harrison, who was then serving as Anthony Wayne’s aide-de-camp, signed the Treaty of Greenville, ending the Northwest Indian War, on August 3. The provisions of the treaty, which involved ten Native American tribes, included the turning over of certain lands (large parts of Ohio and the site of present-day Chicago among them) to the United States an ‘official’--- but often ignored—boundary between American and Indian holdings. Harrison's autograph is a scarce.
William Henry Harrison 1795 Document
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