1. In addition to the four letters to Henry Knox from Richard Brooke Roberts and Constant Freeman discussed at Knox to GW, 1 June, n.1, this message also enclosed copies of a letter of 7 May from Theodore Sedgwick to Roberts and one of 5 May from James Jordan to Henry Gaither (both sent with Roberts’s first letter to Knox of 10 May); a report of Frederick Dalcho, 10 May (sent with Roberts’s second letter to Knox of that date); and an undated deposition of Timothy Barnard (sent with Constant Freeman’s letter to Knox of 10 May). Sedgwick reported the theft of horses by Indians who ambushed and defeated the militia that pursued them. Jordan reported that a "small party" of Indians had set out to steal horses and that one Indian town was "determined for war." Dalcho reported about an attack by militia on a group of friendly Indians near Fort Fidius. The militia commander told Dalcho that in consequence of the death of Lt. Thomas Hay in the earlier skirmish, he intended "to pursue and destroy any party of Indians he might gain intelligence of," and he alleged that Barnard had "given a pass to the Indians who killed" the lieutenant. Barnard swore that he had "neither directly nor indirectly given any pass or other licence to any Indian or Indians" (all DNA: RG 46, Third Congress, 1793-95, Senate Records of Legislative Proceedings, President’s Messages; see also ASP, Indian Affairs description begins Walter Lowrie et al., eds. American State Papers. Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States. 38 vols. Washington, D.C., Gales and Seaton, 1832–61. description ends , 482-84).