Manuscript DS, signed “Wm. H. Harrison, A.D.C.,” one page, 7 x 2.25, May 23, 1794. Document issued from headquarters at Greenville, Ohio, for the requisition of "rations of Whiskey." Boldly signed at the conclusion by Harrison as aide-de-camp. In fine condition, with a couple of small holes and areas of ink erosion.
Harrison was just 21 years old and serving as aide-de-camp to General 'Mad' Anthony Wayne in the Ohio Indian Wars. Fourteen months later, he would be a signatory to the Treaty of Greenville, which ended the Northwest Indian War. In the treaty a coalition of Native American tribes, including the Ottawa, Potawatomi, Chippewa, Miami, and Shawnee, ceded a large area of midwestern land to the United States in exchange for goods valued at $20,000. Harrison would come to national fame nearly two decades later when he again fought the Native Americans, most prominently in a victorious effort over Tecumseh at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811.
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