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Cyrus Griffin

Tenth President of the United States
in Congress Assembled
January 22, 1788 to March 4, 1789
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Griffin, Cyrus - Autograph Letter, Samuel Huntington, unsigned as governor, 1 p, 9” x 12” ', Hartford, May 24, 1788 that is a retained copy of his letter to the president of The United States, in Congress Assembled.  Cyrus Griffin at the time he served under the Articles of Confederation as the last elected president until the new government was formed under the present Constitution. Huntington writes,

"1 have been honoured with your letter of the 8th Instant, & communicate the same to the legislature now sitting in this place, & such orders have been given in Consequence, that I have the satisfaction to acquaint your Excellency Two gentlemen from this state will attend in Congress in a few Days. With sentiments of the highest respect 1 have the honour to be your Obedient Servant."

Darkly penned in Huntington's hand. Signature removed but with a bottom left margin with addressee "His Excellency the President of Congress' .     

A rare example of first President of United States, in Congress Assembled, Samuel Huntington writing to the Confederation’s last U.S. President, Cyrus Griffin. The content of the letter demonstrates, even in the final months of the United States, in Congress Assembled, the need for delegates to conduct the business of the federal government.   The Connecticut legislature did meet and selected two delegates with one of them being Samuel Huntington.  The former President would play an instrumental role along with Cyrus Griffin in passing the necessary legislation to phase out the United States, in Congress Assembled that was replaced by the federal government outlined in the Constitution of 1787.

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Library of Congress Collection Broadside Facsimile C-058

[Presidential Proclamation Cherokee Nation] -  Broadside extract from the Journals of the United States, in Congress Assembled. A facsimile, 8 ½” x 11”,  of a Proclamation of the United States, in Congress Assembled for the Cherokee Nation forbidding unwarranted intrusion upon the Indians' territory and signed by Cyrus Griffin as President from the collection at the Library of Congress, facsimile, dated September 5, 1788 between:

That by the articles of treaty concluded at Hopewell on the Keowee the 28th of November 1785 between the Commissioners of the United States on the one part, and the head men and warriors of all the Cherokees on the other it was, among other things, Stipulated that a certain boundary, particularly specified in the 4th article of the said treaty, should be the boundary between the said Cherokees and the Citizens of the United States within the limits thereof, and that the lands Westward and Southward of the said boundary should be allotted to the said Indians for their hunting grounds, and that by other articles in the same treaty the United States engaged that if their Citizens shall not intrude of on the said hunting grounds of the Cherokees, they shall forfeit the protection of the United States and be liable to be punished by the said Cherokees as they please, and they also engaged that murders, robberies and other capital crimes committed by their Citizens upon the said Indians shall be duly punished in the manner pointed out in the said treaty.[i]

Scant respect was paid to the Proclamation by the offenders and the encroachments on Cherokee lands forced the Native Americans to leave their territory with many joining other tribes in the 1790’s.  By 1830 the Cherokees were displaced from their ancestral lands in northern Georgia and the Carolinas. This forced migration became known as the Trail of Tears or in Cherokee Nunna Daul Tsunny. Samuel Carter, author of Cherokee Sunset, writes: "Then… there came the reign of terror. From the jagged-walled stockades the troops fanned out across the Nation, invading every hamlet, every cabin, rooting out the inhabitants at bayonet point. The Cherokees hardly had time to realize what was happening as they were prodded like so many sheep toward the concentration camps, threatened with knives and pistols, beaten with rifle butts if they resisted."[ii]

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Philadelphia	September 5, 1774 to October 24, 1774	City Tavern on September 4th and then Carpenters Hall
Philadelphia	May 10, 1775 to December 12, 1776	Pennsylvania State House
Baltimore	December 20, 1776 to February 27, 1777	Henry Fite House, Maryland
Philadelphia	March 4, 1777 to September 18, 1777	Pennsylvania State House
Lancaster	September 27, 1777	Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Court House
York	September 30, 1777 to June 27, 1778:	York, Pennsylvania, Court House
Philadelphia	July 2, 1778 to June 21, 1783	Philadelphia, College Hall, then Pennsylvania State House
Princeton,	June 30, 1783 to November 4, 1783	Prospect House and then Nassau Hall, New Jersey
Annapolis	November 26, 1783 to August 19, 1784	Maryland State House
Trenton	November 1, 1784 to December 24, 1784	French Arms Tavern, New Jersey
New York City	January 11, 1785 to November 13, 1788	New York City Hall
New York City	November 1788 - March 1789	Fraunces Tavern

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