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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC02437.04735 |
| From Archive Folder | The Henry Knox Papers [0096] July-September 1790 |
| Title | James Mountflorence to Henry Knox about Indian-settler conflict |
| Date | 23 September 1790 |
| Author | Mountflorence, James C. (d. 1820) |
| Recipient | Knox, Henry |
| Document Type | Correspondence; Military document; Government document |
| Content Description | Concerns the conflicts along the Georgia frontier between Native Americans and white settlers. Some members living within the Natchez under the Spanish conquest said Colonel Washington wrote them "a letter directed to him on the Western side of the Mississippi." Mountflorence reports that "private letters from Georgia received by several of the Inhabitants of Cumberland, mention the Preparations making there and in South Carolina for sending out to the Mississippi immediately a number of Emigrants in the account of the aforesaid Company." On the back page in a different handwriting: "+ This is not Col. Washington lately of the American Dragoons." "This seems to have been by mistake for Eastern," and "The Gentleman from Prince Edward County in Virginia is well known to have been a late Continental Officer & was sent by Pat. Henry to flatter and deceive the Chickasaws." |
| Subjects | American Indian History Frontiers and Exploration Westward Expansion Immigration and Migration Military History Diplomacy Boundary or Property Dispute |
| People | Mountflorence, James C. (d. 1820) Knox, Henry (1750-1806) |
| Theme | Native Americans; Westward Expansion |
| Sub-collection | The Henry Knox Papers |
| Additional Information | James Cole Mountflorence was a Irishman who immigrated to America to fight in the Revolutionary War. After the war he moved to Nashville, Tennessee and worked as a lawyer and merchant. He later served as Chancellor to the U.S. Consul in Paris. |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 |