By the United States in Congress assembled, a proclamation : Whereas the United States in Congress assembled, by their commissioners duly appointed and authorized, did on the twenty-eighth day of November, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, at Hopewell on the Keowee, conclude articles of a treaty with all the Cherokees ...

Signed: Cyrus Griffin, president. Charles Thomson, secretary.

Imprint from Evans. Former attribution to John Dunlap rejected in the Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 34, p. 631. Recorded in Dunlap's account book. Cf. JCC 612.

Evans 21517

Journals of the Continental Congress, 612

LC copy annotated on verso: Proclamation of Congress res. intrusions upon the grounds of the Indians September 1st 1788.

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