A HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE FORMATION OF THE CONFEDERACY, PARTICULARLY WITH REFERENCE TO THE PROVINCIAL LIMITS AND THE JURISDICTION OF THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT OVER INDIAN TRIBES AND THE PUBLIC TERRITORY by Blunt, Joseph - 1825

N.Y.,: Geo. & Chas. Carvil, 1825. . 6,116pp. Disbound, some wear at front joint; foxing in text. Title page has a small tape repair and there is an old paper repair, neither affect any text Includes a history of the discovery of America, occupying powers, land claims, treaties, Indians, adoption of various state constitutions and the Articles of Confederation, etc. "This is a very careful consideration of the tenure by which the United States acquired a title to the lands once occupied or claimed by the Indians. Mr. Blunt analyzes in a most judicious and impartial manner, the complex rights of the savage and civilized claimants; more especially of those by which the State of New York assumes proprietorship of the lands once held by the Six Nations, and of the States of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, in those of the Creeks, Choctaws, and Cherokees" - Field. An important work on early Indian policy. SABIN 6040. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 19774. HOWES B559. FIELD 143.