1To George Washington from George Clinton, 19 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
Although Mr Williamson mentions in his Letter to me of the 26th of November that he has transmitted to the secretary of state the affidavit of George Rankin yet I have thought proper to enclose a duplicate of it together with a Copy of his said Letter It is my duty at the same time not only to solicit redress from the Union of the Injury this State sustains from a foreign power’s continuing to...
2Enclosure I: Charles Williamson to George Clinton, 26 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have the Honor to inclose you an Affidavit taken before me as a Magestrate of this County—as the outrage complained of has been attended with the most distressing consequences to some of the sufferers, and a most dangerous Precident to the safety of the Settlers on this Frontier—I thought it my duty to lay it before your Excellency. As I consider this unwarantable stretch of Local power on...
3Enclosure II: Affidavit of George Rankin, 26 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
Personally appeared before me Chas Williamson one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County Ontario in the State of New York. Geo. Rankin of Newtonpoint in the County and State aforesaid who being duly sworn, deposeth and saith that he this deponent with three other Men in Two boats passed the British Garrison at oswego within the jurisdiction of the State of New York, About...