From the Falls of the Ohio, William Clark writes a letter to John Conner offering him a position as interpreter for the Western Expedition. In Pittsburgh, Meriwether Lewis waits for the completion of barge prior to departing down the Ohio River.
Tish-Co-Han. A Delaware Chief.
By John T. Bowen
From History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs, vol.1 by Thomas L. M’Kenney available at SMU Libraries
Falls Ohio [26 August 1803]
Sir
Some time in the month of February last you offered your self by letter to accompany Capt. Meriwether Lewis on an N. Western experdition up the Mississippi &c in the capacity of an interpreter; and informed him that you resided among the Dellaware Indians on the White River.
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I am (one [of] the official characters for the Enterprise) equally anxious with Capt. Lewis that you should become on of our party . . . . we will give you 300$ a year and find you provisions & clothing.
Yrs.
26th Augt. 1803
W. C.[1]Clark to John Conner in Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition with Related Documents: 1783-1854, 2nd ed., ed. Donald Jackson (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 118–19.
Notes
| ↑1 | Clark to John Conner in Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition with Related Documents: 1783-1854, 2nd ed., ed. Donald Jackson (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 118–19. |
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