Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: This is a message to the Governor of Pennsylvania from Galloway as Speaker of the Assembly. The Assembly takes exception to the Governor's request for a garrison at Fort Pitt to protect the inhabitants of the back country from the Indians and refuses for fear of stirring up trouble among the Indians. At one point in the letter, it reads: "We might offer other Reasons for not concurring in Sentiments with your Honor, on the...

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Message from Principal Chief Green McCurtain to the General Council of the Choctaw Nation regarding alloting commissioners, statehood for Indian Territory, townsite money, citizenship, and Chickasaw resolutions. Mimeographed document, signed by Chief Green McCurtain.