Henry Knox to Tobias Lear, 6 February 1793
Henry Knox to Tobias Lear
[Philadelphia] 6 [February]1 1793
Dear Sir
Please to submit the enclosed letters from Governors Moultrie2 and Blount3 to the President of the United States. Yours sincerely
H. Knox
LS, DLC:GW; LB, DLC:GW.
1. Knox’s clerk dated this letter “6 April” on the LS. Lear correctly docketed it as having been written on “6 Feby 1793” and inserted “Feby” above “April” in the dateline.
2. Gov. William Moultrie of South Carolina, in his letter to Knox of 14 Jan., sought weapons and “accutrements for 200 horsemen” as a precaution against hostile Indians ( 43). This appeal from Moultrie followed that of Charles Pinckney, who as governor in late 1792 had found success in his request to purchase arms from the federal arsenal (Pinckney to GW, 30 Sept., Knox to Lear, 27 Oct. 1792, n.3). On 15 Feb., Moultrie wrote GW to ask for further assistance.
3. Southwest Territory governor William Blount enclosed in his letter to Knox of 10 Jan. notes from his conversations with various Cherokee chiefs, and he explained his reasons for moving a planned meeting with them from February to April ( 43). For GW’s response to Blount’s news, see Knox to Lear, 9 Feb. 1793, n.1.