John Stagg, Jr., to Tobias Lear, 24 March 1793

John Stagg, Jr., to Tobias Lear

[Philadelphia] Sunday—March 24 [1793]1

Dear Sir.

Please to submit to the President, the enclosed letter from general Wayne, received last evening.2 Your’s respectfully

John Stagg Junr

ALS, DLC:GW; LB, DLC:GW.

1. Lear’s docket and the letter-book copy both indicate that this letter was written on 24 Mar. 1793.

2. In his letter to Henry Knox of 15 Mar., Gen. Anthony Wayne announced the arrival at Legionville of Cornplanter and other Iroquois Indians (Knopf, Wayne, description begins Richard C. Knopf, ed. Anthony Wayne, a Name in Arms: Soldier, Diplomat, Defender of Expansion Westward of a Nation; The Wayne-Knox-Pickering-McHenry Correspondence. Pittsburgh, 1960. description ends 203).

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Title: John Stagg, Jr., to Tobias Lear, 24 March 1793
Author: Stagg, John Jr.
Recipient: Lear, Tobias
Date: 24 March 1793

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Cite as: “John Stagg, Jr., to Tobias Lear, 24 March 1793,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-12-02-0295. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 12, 16 January 1793 – 31 May 1793, ed. Christine Sternberg Patrick and John C. Pinheiro. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005, p. 373.]

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