Records of Indian affairs, 1784-1791, transcribed in 1793 from papers in the office of the superintendent general and inspector general in charge of Indian affairs in Montreal. This volume is composed of treaties, 1784-1789, negotiated between representatives of the United States and tribes east of the Mississippi, letters and speeches during treaty negotiations and in intertribal councils, and proceedings of British councils with Indians at Detroit and Niagara (1790) and at Quebec (1791). Major treaties covered were those concluded at Fort Stanwix (1784), Fort McIntosh (Pennsylvania, 1786), the mouth of the Great Miami (1786), and Fort Harmar (1788-1789) by United States commissioners, one at Fort Stanwix (1784) by Pennsylvania, and one at Albany (1789) by New York.

Among the persons writing letters or delivering speeches were Joseph Brant, Richard Butler, Captain Pipe, George Clinton, Lord Dorchester, Half King, Benjamin Logan, Alexander McKee, and Arthur St. Clair. Revealed in these records are the complex interrelationships and attitudes of American, British, and Indian leaders in the period immediately after the Revolution, but the most recurrent themes are Indian reluctance to accept the authority of the new United States and Indian uneasiness and discontent with the land cessions so persistently-and successfully-demanded by the Americans.