ters of General Anthony Wayne

, commanding
the army of the United States, northwest of the
Ohio, between that officer, acting as Commission-
er for the United States, and the Sachems, Chiefs
and warriors of twelve tribes of Indians. The
treaty was mainly the result of a victory ob-
tained by General Wayne over the Indians in a
battle fought the previous year, near the Mau-
mee* * At the time of the treaty called the Miami of the
Lake. river, and terminated the hostilities which
for nearly twenty years had been carried on be-
tween the Indians, northwest of the Ohio, and
the white settlers in Kentucky and western Vir-
ginia. Sundry abortive efforts had been made
by the government to procure peace. Partial
treaties were entered into, which had no
effect in restraining the great body of the tribes,
and several military expeditions, which had been
sent into their country to subdue them, met with
disasters, and by their failure only strengthened
the Indians. In April, 1793, three Commission-
ers, with ample powers, were sent to negotiate a
treaty, and were intrusted to offer much better
terms than were afterwards granted the Indians
by the treaty of Greeneville. In the instructions
given them it was stated, that the Society of
Friends had, with the approbation of the President
of the United States, decided to send some of
their respectable members in order to contribute
their influence to induce the hostile Indians to