THE HERALD; A GAZTTE FOR THE COUNTRY, New York, Nov. 7, 1795  Page 3 has a report from Augusta, Georgia, being a letter signed by Timothy Pickering concerning a treaty with the Creek Indians. This is followed by a report from the Knoxville which begins: "Notwithstanding the Creeks have solicited the mediation of the President...to restore peace between them and the Chickasaws...that no parties would go out to war against the Chickasaws..." with much more.
Four pages, nice condition.

Background: This November 7, 1795 issue of The Herald; A Gazette for the Country captures a critical primary-source moment in early American frontier diplomacy as Secretary of War Timothy Pickering and President George Washington navigated tense, multi-party U.S.–Native American relations along the Southern border. The newspaper's dispatches from Augusta, Georgia, and Knoxville, Tennessee (then the capital of the Southwest Territory, just months prior to Tennessee statehood in 1796), detail the fragile geopolitical landscape surrounding the Creek Indians (Muscogee) and the Chickasaw Nation. While Creek leaders formally solicited the mediation of President Washington to establish a peace settlement following the Treaty of New York, ongoing hostilities and rogue war parties threatened to unravel peace between the tribes and spill over into white settlements. Recorded by publisher Noah Webster in New York, these reports illustrate the Federal Government's early struggles to assert authority over land speculators, frontier militia, and inter-tribal warfare, making this account an important record of post-Revolutionary executive diplomacy and Native sovereignty.