The Treaty of New York was signed in Federal Hall on August 13. Abigail Adams, who had been made an honorary Creek with a Creek name, Mammea, was in the gallery. She watched Washington give McGillivray a gift of beads and tobacco, then shake hands Indian-style with each chief, arms locked while grasping elbows. The Creeks then formed themselves in a chorus and sang a final song that the interpreter explained was a tribute to perpetual peace. In the tortured and tragic history of Indian-white relations in the United States, this was probably the most hopeful moment.
