NEW HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE & THE GENERAL ADVERTISER, Portsmouth, April 18, 1792  Over half of the front page is taken up with reports from "Congress" which includes mention of the President, General Anthony Wayne and others. Page 3 has news from a letter from Philadelphia noting: "... Thirty or forty Chiefs of the six and other nation of Indians are now in this city..." with more.
Four pages, never bound nor trimmed, very nice condition.

Background: The 1792 Native American diplomatic delegations to Philadelphia were a watershed moment in early American history, exposing the fragility of the young United States while cementing a precedents-setting framework for Federal-Tribal relations. Coming immediately after the catastrophic American defeat at St. Clair’s Defeat, these summits forced President George Washington to abandon pure military coercion in favor of sophisticated, high-stakes diplomacy to prevent a pan-Indian alliance from overwhelming the fragile republic. By treating the Haudenosaunee and other indigenous nations as sovereign foreign powers—complete with state dinners, ceremonial gifts, and formal military honors—the federal government explicitly acknowledged Native sovereignty, a concept later enshrined in the landmark Treaty of Canandaigua (1794). Furthermore, iconic exchanges like the presentation of the Washington Peace Medal to Red Jacket symbolized a complex, enduring paradox: while these meetings successfully bought the United States the geopolitical stability it desperately needed to survive, they also marked the beginning of structured federal assimilation policies and an ongoing struggle over indigenous land rights that would shape the American continent for centuries.