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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 ...
Contributor Names
United States. Continental Congress.
Griffin, Cyrus, 1748-1810.
Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824.
Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
[New York : s.n., 1788]
Subject Headings
-  Cherokee Nation.--Treaties, etc.--United States,--1785 Nov. 28
-  Cherokee Indians--Government relations
-  United States--New York--New York
Genre
Broadsides--New York (N.Y.)--1788
Proclamations--United States--1788
Broadsheet format (Printing)--New York (N.Y.)--1788
Notes
-  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.
-  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Medium
1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 40 x 32 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
Cont Cong no. 240
Cont Cong no. 240 Copy 3 Copy 3. Annotated on verso: Proclamation of Congress res. intrusions upon the grounds of the Indians, September 1st 1788.
Digital Id
bdsdcc 24001 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/bdsdcc.24001
Library of Congress Control Number
90898170
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LCCN Permalink
https://lccn.loc.gov/90898170
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United States Continental Congress, Cyrus Griffin, Charles Thomson, and Continental Congress Broadside Collection. 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. [New York: s.n, 1788] Online Text. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/90898170/. (Accessed January 21, 2017.)

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United States Continental Congress, Griffin, C., Thomson, C. & Continental Congress Broadside Collection. (1788) 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. [New York: s.n] [Online Text] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/90898170/.

MLA citation style:

United States Continental Congress, et al. 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. [New York: s.n, 1788] Online Text. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <https://www.loc.gov/item/90898170/>.