1. For the proposed instructions for the commissioners who were to attend an Indian treaty at Lower Sandusky in the Northwest Territory, see Knox to GW, 16 Feb., and notes 1–2. Knox’s draft has not been found, but the final text of 26 April is in 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 1:340–42.

2. Although Virginia governor Henry Lee, in his letter to Knox of 12 April, reported that anxiety existed along the frontier of that state, he wrote that “The opinion which you was pleased to Signify from the President of the United States relative to this business induced the Executive to Suspend calling into Service a great part of the destined force” (Vi: Executive Letter Book, 1792–94; see also JPP, description begins Dorothy Twohig, ed. The Journal of the Proceedings of the President, 1793–1797. Charlottesville, Va., 1981. description ends 109). Knox’s letter to Lee relaying GW’s opinion on the adequacy of Virginia’s defenses has not been identified. For Lee’s desire for a greater militia presence on Virginia’s frontier, see Knox to Tobias Lear, 25 April, n.2, and Lee to GW, 29 April, and note 7.

3. The letter from Georgia governor Edward Telfair to Knox of 3 April reported Indian depredations on the Georgia frontier and advocated calling out the militia under the command of U.S. Army major Henry Gaither, who dismissed Telfair’s concerns in a letter to Knox of 7 April (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 1:368, 417; see also Knox to Lear, 10 May [first letter], and note 1). For Knox’s reply to Telfair, see his letter to Lear of 25 April, n.1.