(AMERICAN INDIANS) Reward notice seeking the murderers of tw

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(AMERICAN INDIANS.) Reward notice seeking the murderers of two Cherokees on the Tennessee frontier. Manuscript document, one page, 9 x 7 1/2 inches; short dealer description pasted to recto, mount remnants on verso, two small holes barely touching text. Np, 2 November 1797

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A contemporary manuscript copy of a reward notice, seeking to keep peace with the Cherokees by bringing two killers to justice: "Seven Hundred Dollars Reward. Being informed that two Cherokee Indians were found killed on Stones River on or about the 26th or 27th ultimo (supposed to be done by white men), being desirous to prevent the effusion of innocent blood which will inevitably take place unless the agressors are brought to punishment, and feeling the necessity of a strict observance of our treaties with all nations, we are induced to engage the above reward to any person who will apprehend the perpetrators of the horrid deed and prosecute them to conviction." The notice was issued by Judge John McNairy and General James Robertson, who was then serving as Indian Commissioner. The incident is discussed in Putnam's History of Middle Tennessee, page 539.