Henry Knox to Tobias Lear, 24 March 1793
Henry Knox to Tobias Lear
[Philadelphia] Sunday Morng [24 March 1793]1
Dear Sir
Please to submit the enclosed letter, from Major Hamtramck previously to the Presidents departure.2 excuse my not endorsing them.
H. Knox
ALS, DLC:GW; LB, DLC:GW.
1. Lear’s docket and the letter-book copy indicate that this letter was written on 24 March 1793, which was a Sunday.
2. John Francis Hamtramck wrote two letters to Knox, both dated 6 February. Although neither letter has been identified, they apparently relayed information from a friendly Indian scout that the hostile Indians of the Northwest Territory wanted British commissioners to attend the upcoming treaty at Lower Sandusky and planned to push for the abandonment of all American settlements north of the Ohio River ( 105). GW left Philadelphia for Mount Vernon on 27 Mar. (ibid., 107).