Contracts between the State of New York and different tribes of the Six
Nations of Indians, specifying their several cessions and reservations
of land, etc. On the 19th of April, 1793, George Clinton, governor of
New York, transmitted to Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State of
the United States, an exemplification of the different treaties
entered into by that commonwealth with the Indians of the Six
Nations, subsequent to the conclusion of the war of the American
revolution. In his letter to Mr. Jefferson, Governor Clinton says, "I
had written to the clerk of the city of Albany, and did not receive
his answer until yesterday : he informs, as I suspected, that
the superintendent of Indian affairs under the British government, was,
at the commencement of the revolution, possessed of all the records and
documents respecting Indian a airs, and took them with him when he
left the country."
