1. Knox enclosed this copy in his letter to Wayne of 14 Sept. (see note 2).

2. Wayne enclosed in his letter to Knox of 7 Sept. “an extract from General Orders, containing the arrangement of the Officers of the four Sub Legions, and the principles upon which rank is to be determined, . . . also for the mustering and making out the necessary Muster and pay rolls.” Wayne suggested the creation of “Sub Legionary and Battalion Paymasters. . . . I am of opinion that they are really necessary; Pay however is much wanted. do have the goodness to give immediate and necessary Orders for that purpose—let us pay—and feed well—we then have a right to expect due subordination.” Wayne complained about the poor quality and tardiness of provisions from the contracting firm of Robert Elliott and Eli Williams, and he reported that neither dragoons nor clothing intended for Fort Washington could be sent from his headquarters at Pittsburgh because “no boat can possibly pass at present down the Ohio. . . . The Paymaster General [Caleb Swan] has not been ordered to this place because there was no means of doing it by water and I am of opinion that it would be very improper for him to attempt it by land—the Ohio has never been known so low, nor is there any prospect of its rising before the Equinox and perhaps not then as it will depend upon a very heavy fall of Water—but Lieut. [Daniel] Britt is on the spot who I have directed to instruct the Officers as to the form and correctness of the Muster and pay Rolls—Query might it not be expedient to appoint him Deputy Pay Master pro tem?” Wayne mentioned that the offices of brigade major, sublegionary and battalion adjutants, and adjutant general also needed to be filled. “In fact,” he wrote, “I never experienced so great a want of Officers.” He suggested promoting sergeants George H. Dunn and Abraham Jones. Wayne also enclosed “extracts from General orders approving the sentences of a general Court Martial held at this place by which four Soldiers were condemned to death and one to be shaved, branded and whipt. John Elias alias Ebbert alias Eli, has been pardoned—the other three were shot to death on Sunday last—these exemplary punishments, I trust will have the desired effect.” Wayne concluded with a report on the frequency of target practice and the subsequent improvement in the skills of the soldiers and with a report that the Indians were in “pretty great force at Sandusky” (DLC:GW; see also Knopf, Wayne, description begins Richard C. Knopf, ed. Anthony Wayne, a Name in Arms: Soldier, Diplomat, Defender of Expansion Westward of a Nation; The Wayne-Knox-Pickering-McHenry Correspondence. Pittsburgh, 1960. description ends 87–89). For details on the court-martial and for the general orders enclosed in Wayne’s letter, see Burton, “General Wayne’s Orderly Book,” description begins C. M. Burton, ed. “General Wayne’s Orderly Book.” Collections and Researches Made by the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society, 34 (1904): 341–733. description ends 370–78.

In his reply to Wayne from Philadelphia on 14 Sept., Knox agreed with Wayne’s request for sublegionary paymasters and quartermasters, but not battalion paymasters. He promised to submit both ideas to the president for his consideration. He enclosed a copy of his 11 Sept. letter to Wayne and reported that money for the army’s pay left Philadelphia on 14 September. Concerning the future assignment of the U.S. Army in the Northwest Territory, Knox wrote: “I will write immediately to the President of the United States and request his orders on certain conditional statements relatively to the proportion of troops which may probably be necessary to retain on the upper parts of the Ohio.” In the meantime “the Quarter Master should be making arrangements for scantling boards, Bricks &c. for the covering of the troops at the places which shall be decided upon for their stations.”

Enclosing a copy of GW’s letter to Knox of 7 Sept., in which GW reviewed Wayne’s proposed plan of war, Knox wrote: “I am persuaded that the President who is highly anxious on the subject will be well pleased with your exertions to discipline the troops. Every thing depends on that pivot. The public interest, the national character and your personal reputation—Aware of the consequences, no doubt can be entertained that you will continue unremittingly to pursue in every proper way, the accomplishment of so indispensible a qualification of your troops.

“The sentences of the Courts Martial you have confirmed, seemed absolutely necessary—Hereafter it is to be hoped there may be less call for the punishment of death. The Branding however is a punishment upon which some doubts may be entertained as to its legality. Uncommon punishments not sanctioned by Law should be admitted with caution although less severe than those authorized by the articles of War.”

Knox enclosed copies of letters written him on 5 and 6 Aug. by Gen. James Wilkinson and on 10 Aug. by deputy quartermaster John Belli. He reported that additional troops were on their way to Pittsburgh under Capt. William Eaton, Capt. John Peirce, and Lt. Ebenezer Massey (DLC:GW; see also Knopf, Wayne, description begins Richard C. Knopf, ed. Anthony Wayne, a Name in Arms: Soldier, Diplomat, Defender of Expansion Westward of a Nation; The Wayne-Knox-Pickering-McHenry Correspondence. Pittsburgh, 1960. description ends 95–97). A copy of Wilkinson’s letter of 6 Aug. is in DLC:GW, as is a copy of Knox’s first letter to Wayne of 11 Sept. (see also ibid., 90–91).

3. For Knox’s previous instructions regarding this money, see his letter to Wayne of 7 Sept., enclosed in Knox to GW, 8 Sept. 1792 (second letter). Enclosure 3 is a copy of Knox’s letter to the commanding officer of Fort Bedford, Pa., of 11 Sept., directing him to protect “the persons having charge of the money, for the payment of the army.” Knox also ordered that officer to arrange protection for George Clymer, supervisor of the revenue for Pennsylvania, as he traveled to Pittsburgh (DLC:GW). Enclosure 4 is a copy of Knox’s second letter to Wayne of 11 Sept. instructing him to help protect Clymer when he reached western Pennsylvania (DLC:GW; see also Knopf, Wayne, description begins Richard C. Knopf, ed. Anthony Wayne, a Name in Arms: Soldier, Diplomat, Defender of Expansion Westward of a Nation; The Wayne-Knox-Pickering-McHenry Correspondence. Pittsburgh, 1960. description ends 92). For background on Clymer’s mission, see Hamilton to GW, 1 Sept., and note 3.

4. These rifle companies were commanded by captains Alexander Gibson, Howell Lewis, Thomas Lewis, and William Preston (see Knox to Wayne, 15 June, 20 July 1792, in Knopf, Wayne, description begins Richard C. Knopf, ed. Anthony Wayne, a Name in Arms: Soldier, Diplomat, Defender of Expansion Westward of a Nation; The Wayne-Knox-Pickering-McHenry Correspondence. Pittsburgh, 1960. description ends 18, 40–41).

5. For information on the failure of peace envoys Alexander Trueman and John Hardin and the peace mission of Stockbridge chief Hendrick Aupaumut, see Knox to GW, 16 Aug., nn.3–4. For Knox’s report on the failure of American efforts in 1792 to achieve a peaceful settlement with the Indians of the Northwest Territory, see Knox to GW, 6 Dec. 1792.

6. On 25 Aug. 1792 Indian superintendent Israel Chapin, Sr., wrote Knox from Canandaigua, N.Y., about the current mood of the Iroquois Indians: “An Opportunity presenting . . . I do myself the honor to write you altho’ I have not received any answers to my two last letters—since which nothing material has occurred in this quarter, the Indians appear perfectly friendly and have a sincere wish for peace.

“Captain Scanando [Skenandon] one of the Oneida Chiefs returned yesterday from Buffaloe Creek not being able to proceed on to the Westward on account of his sickness—he informs me of the death of good Peter. for which I am extremely sorry as I think he was capable of doing much good among the Indians—he also informs me that twenty four Indians have died at Buffaloe Creek within the course of a few days, that Capt. Brant lay at the point of death, and it was thought there was scarce a possibility of his recovery; that a vessel and every necessary preparation was made to convey the Indians of the six Nations to attend the Council at the Westward, and it was probable they had taken their departure before this time.

“I have not as yet been able to obtain the particulars of the Murder of the Indian at the Oswego Falls, when I do will immediately inform you” (DLC:GW).

7. Enclosure 6 was a copy of a letter that Virginia governor Henry Lee wrote Knox on 7 Sept. from Richmond: “I have perused your letter to the Lieutenant Governor received during my absence, and have the pleasure to inform you that my intelligence while on the frontier confirms the opinions you therein express. Governor Blount and General Pickens had reached Nashville and I understood the Goods were safely arrived. A very numerous assemblage of Indians from the Chickasaw nation had taken place, but only a few from the Choctaws. I found the troops employed on our southern frontier inadequate to the defence of that quarter, and therefore augmented the same by the addition of fifty militia. Excepting the killing of two Men and the capturing of a Woman and six Children (all of whom were afterwards retaken) and the loss of some horses, our people in that part of the frontier have been uninjured” (DLC:GW). For Knox’s letter to Virginia’s lieutenant governor, James Wood, of 13 Aug., see Calendar of Virginia State Papers, description begins William P. Palmer et al., eds. Calendar of Virginia State Papers and Other Manuscripts. 11 vols. Richmond, 1875–93. description ends 6:38. For information on William Blount and Andrew Pickens’s journey to Nashville and their subsequent meeting with the Chickasaw and Choctaw Indians, see Blount to Knox, 4 July, and “Journal of the Grand Cherokee National Council,” 26 June–1 July 1792, 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 1:270–73.

8. For Wayne’s recommendations of promotions for cavalry sergeants George H. Dunn (d. 1794) and Abraham Jones (d. 1831), see Wayne to Knox, 7 Sept., in note 2. Their promotions to cornet were effective on 18 Sept. and 7 Oct. 1792, respectively (see GW to the U.S. Senate, 22 Feb. 1793). Both men later advanced to lieutenant. Mr. Sprigg’s letter to GW has not been found, but Knox enclosed a copy of it in his letter to Wayne of 28 Sept. (see Knopf, Wayne, description begins Richard C. Knopf, ed. Anthony Wayne, a Name in Arms: Soldier, Diplomat, Defender of Expansion Westward of a Nation; The Wayne-Knox-Pickering-McHenry Correspondence. Pittsburgh, 1960. description ends 110). Neither Sprigg nor Richardson has been identified.

9. GW arrived in Philadelphia on 13 Oct. (see GW to Anthony Whitting, 14 Oct. 1792). He did not wait until his return from Mount Vernon to offer directives concerning winter quarters for the troops but included them in his first letter to Knox written on 24 September. Knox relayed these suggestions to Wayne in a letter from Philadelphia of 28 Sept. (see ibid., 110–11).

10. For background on John Morgan and his impending court-martial, see Knox to GW, 28 July 1792, and note 8. Morgan was the eldest son of Col. George Morgan, a Philadelphia merchant, fur trader, and western land speculator. After efforts to have influential family friends and associates intervene on his behalf, Ensign Morgan attempted to have his trial moved to Philadelphia, hoping this change of venue would be in his favor (see Morgan to Knox and Knox to Morgan, 19 Sept., enclosed in Knox to GW, 22 Sept., and Morgan to Knox, 20 Sept., enclosed in Knox to GW, 29 Sept. 1792). GW rejected that request (see GW to Knox, 24 Sept. 1792), and Morgan’s court-martial was held at General Wayne’s headquarters south of Pittsburgh in August 1793 (see Burton, “General Wayne’s Orderly Book,” description begins C. M. Burton, ed. “General Wayne’s Orderly Book.” Collections and Researches Made by the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society, 34 (1904): 341–733. description ends 462). Morgan was found guilty, and after unsuccessful appeals for redress, he was cashiered from the army on 31 Dec. 1793 (see Knox to GW, 22 Nov. 1793, Edmund Randolph to GW, 24 Nov. 1793).

11. Knox wrote Nicholas Fish on 29 Aug. offering him the position of adjutant general (NNGL: Knox Papers). Fish declined the offer in a reply from Schoharie, N.Y., on 7 Sept., in which he wrote: “At present my views are so detached from military pursuits, that an appointment in that line, would not be in any degree desireable” (DLC:GW). Neither Ebenezer Sproat nor Thomas Posey received the appointment of adjutant general. For more information about Sproat’s efforts to acquire a federal position, either military or civil, see Sproat to GW, 9 July 1789, and source note, and Knox to GW, 29 Sept. 1792 (second letter), n.4. For Colonel Posey’s efforts to acquire a military appointment, see Posey to GW, 20 Nov. 1791, source note and notes 1 and 2.