1. The document copies enclosed with this letter have not been identified. However, the original documents for the first five are in PHarH: Executive Correspondence, 1790-99, and copies of all six documents are with the copy of this letter in DNA: RG 46, Third Congress, 1793-95, Senate Records of Legislative Proceedings, President’s Messages. Gen. John Gibson’s letter to Mifflin informed the governor that "From every account, I have reason to believe the Six Nations mean to be hostile" and enclosed the four documents that follow. Daniel Ransom testified that an Indian had told him that "the Cornplanter intended soon to come to fort Franklin, on pretence of holding a council respecting the Indian who was killed by Robertson; that there the British and Indians were to land at Presqu’ Isle, and then form a junction with Cornplanter on French Creek, and were then to clear it by killing all the people and taking all the posts on it." Ransom added that another Indian had advised him to leave Fort Franklin and that some white men informed him "that the Indians appeared very surly." Henry Certs, whose name appears in the copies submitted to Congress as Henry Verts, reported finding the body of a man believed to have been attacked by Indians. Andrew Ellicott and Ebenezer Denny asked for military instructions in light of Ransom’s information, and Denny’s other letter conveyed a version of Certs’s information. Presley Nevill summarized the preceding information and added, "For my own part, I have no doubt of the hostile disposition of the Senecas, and that they actually committed the late murder on the Alleghany river" (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 , 1:509-10).