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 (JPP, description begins Dorothy Twohig, ed. The Journal of the Proceedings of the President, 1793–1797. Charlottesville, Va., 1981. description ends 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.

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Title: Henry Knox to Tobias Lear, 17 February 1793
Author: Knox, Henry
Recipient: Lear, Tobias
Date: 17 February 1793

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Cite as: “Henry Knox to Tobias Lear, 17 February 1793,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-12-02-0113. [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, pp. 160–161.]

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