South Carolina -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Report of the South Carolina Committee of Conference upon Indian Affairs
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-072
Collection Overview
The handwritten document is a report from the Committee of Conference upon Indian Affairs to the South Carolina General Assembly. The committee reported on sending a delegation of Catawba Indians to New York to negotiate a treaty to end hostilities with their traditional enemies, the Six Nations of the Iroquois. The report is dated 17 May 1751, and it made recommendations on how to send the Catawba most quickly and safely. It also discussed how to pay the Catawba's expenses.
Dates:
1751 May 17
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