Henry Knox to Tobias Lear, 17 February 1793
Henry Knox to Tobias Lear
[Philadelphia] Sunday 17[t]h Febry 1793
Dear Sir
Please to submit the enclosed letters of the 27th ultimo from Genl Chapin, to the President, which I have just received.1 Yours
H. Knox
ALS, DLC:GW; LB, DLC:GW.
1. Gen. Israel Chapin’s letters of 27 Jan. 1793, which contained information about “his Journey to Buffaloe Creek” in December 1792, have not been identified ( 57; see also Lear to Knox, 11 Dec. 1792, note 2). For the activities of Chapin and his son, Israel Chapin, Jr., relative to the Indian council held at Buffalo Creek, N.Y., in November 1792, see Knox to GW, 6 Dec. 1792, and note 2, and GW to Charles Carroll (of Carrollton) and Charles Thomson, 23–31 Jan. 1793, n.2.