In this meeting with President Thomas Jefferson in Philadelphia, the Delaware and Shawnee made a number of requests, including asking for a grant of land for George Ash, who had lived with them. The description, four miles down the Ohio river from a point opposite the mouth of the Kentucky River, puts much of the tract in Jefferson County. Ash signed as a translator.Copyright by Glen Black Laboratory of Archaeology, Indiana University.
National Archives
Records of the Office of the Secretary of War,
Letters Sent, Indian Affairs, Vol. A.
Conference held with the Delaware and Shawanoe
Deputation, February 5-10, 1802.
The other Interpreter is a man we raised from a Child and look on him as one of ourselves, we therefore with to give him Four miles down the river and one mile up the land, his name is George Ash and the plac[e] we meane for him is at the mouth of Kentuckey on the Indian boundary line[.]
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