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Washington signs an Act of Congress concerning General Greene... Indian troubles near Pittsburgh...
Washington signs an Act of Congress concerning General Greene... Indian troubles near Pittsburgh...
Item # 703610
May 16, 1792
COLUMBIAN CENTINEL, Boston, May 16, 1792 The front page has almost a full column Act of Congress concerning General Nathaniel Greene. It is signed in script type by the President: Go. Washington.
Page 2 has a report concerning trouble with the Indians in the Pittsburgh vicinity. Another item mentions: "...from the frontiers of the Union which mention that the hostile Indians had made several attacks on the inhabitants--and that a party had been ordered by Gen. Wilkinson, to erect a new fort between fort Jefferson and fort Washington."
Four pages, never-trimmed margins, very nice condition.
Category: The 1600's and 1700's
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