Future President William Henry Harrison, as Aide de Camp to “Mad” Anthony Wayne During the Northwest Indian War, Orders Supplies Including Whiskey for a Defeated Indian Tribe

The Americans under Anthony Wayne defeated the Ohio Indians, including members of the Delaware tribe almost a year before, and afterwards supplied them with provisions until the end of the war by the Treaty of Greeneville in August 1795. Future President William Henry Harrison was Aide de Camp to Wayne.

Autograph document signed, Greeneville, Ohio, July 11, 1795. “The Commissary will issue to the Delawares one hundred & twelve pounds of flour & beef & seventy five gills of whiskey.""