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[NATIVE AMERICANS] RED JACKET ("Sagoyewatha") (1756?-1830), Seneca chief, orator. Document signed with his mark ("X"), also signed by witnesses H.Cunningham and C.F. Coit, Buffalo, [NY], 1 June 1820. 1 page, oblong 8vo. Fine.
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[NATIVE AMERICANS] RED JACKET ("Sagoyewatha") (1756?-1830), Seneca chief, orator. Document signed with his mark ("X"), also signed by witnesses H.Cunningham and C.F. Coit, Buffalo, [NY], 1 June 1820. 1 page, oblong 8vo. Fine.
A VERY RARE DOCUMENT SIGNED BY RED JACKET, THE GREAT SENECA CHIEF
Sagoyewatha ("he keeps them awake"), chief of the Seneca, was a key figure in relations between the United States and the Six Nations or Iroquois. Dubbed "Red Jacket" by the British during the American Revolution as he chose to wear their red coats, he proved an able negotiator after the war. Although he initially advocated armed resistence against American settlers in the 1780s, he ultimately agreed to meet with President Washington in 1792 and supported the United States during the War of 1812. On September 15, 1797, at a meeting held at Big Tree (present day Geneseo, NY), the Seneca (including chiefs Cornplanter and Red Jacket), agreed to the sale of a substantial portion of their remaining lands in New York, retaining a small tract on which they would live.
Here, Red Jacket signs a receipt for the last payment he was to receive under the terms of the treaty: "$100 Received at Buffalo of LeRoy Bayard & McEvins and Thomas Morris In the hands of Jasper Parrish Sub-agent to the Six nations of Indians One hundred dollars it being in full for annuity due me (by an agreement made with Robert Morris at Big Tree in September 1797 up to September 1819."
This is the only document bearing the mark of Red Jacket offered at auction in a half century. Provenance: Philip D. Sang (sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 14 November 1978, lot 542, $600).
A VERY RARE DOCUMENT SIGNED BY RED JACKET, THE GREAT SENECA CHIEF
Sagoyewatha ("he keeps them awake"), chief of the Seneca, was a key figure in relations between the United States and the Six Nations or Iroquois. Dubbed "Red Jacket" by the British during the American Revolution as he chose to wear their red coats, he proved an able negotiator after the war. Although he initially advocated armed resistence against American settlers in the 1780s, he ultimately agreed to meet with President Washington in 1792 and supported the United States during the War of 1812. On September 15, 1797, at a meeting held at Big Tree (present day Geneseo, NY), the Seneca (including chiefs Cornplanter and Red Jacket), agreed to the sale of a substantial portion of their remaining lands in New York, retaining a small tract on which they would live.
Here, Red Jacket signs a receipt for the last payment he was to receive under the terms of the treaty: "$100 Received at Buffalo of LeRoy Bayard & McEvins and Thomas Morris In the hands of Jasper Parrish Sub-agent to the Six nations of Indians One hundred dollars it being in full for annuity due me (by an agreement made with Robert Morris at Big Tree in September 1797 up to September 1819."
This is the only document bearing the mark of Red Jacket offered at auction in a half century. Provenance: Philip D. Sang (sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 14 November 1978, lot 542, $600).