1. This letter was enclosed in a letter which Henry Knox, Secretary of War, wrote to George Washington on October 4, 1791 (LS, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress). H, in a letter to Knox, dated October 3, 1791, had submitted Beckwith’s letter to the Secretary of War.

2. According to Samuel F. Bemis, Dorchester’s address to a deputation of the confederated Indian nations is in the British Public Records Office. Dorchester informed the Indians that Great Britain would not join them in hostilities but that he would mediate between them and the United States (Bemis, Jay’s Treaty description begins Samuel Flagg Bemis, Jay’s Treaty, a Study in Commerce and Diplomacy (New York, 1923). description ends , 116). Dorchester sent a copy of his address in a letter to Lord Grenville on August 17, 1791 (see Brymner, Canadian Archives, 1890 description begins Douglas Brymner, ed., Report on Canadian Archives, 1890 (Ottawa, 1891). description ends , 302). It presumably was prepared in answer to a message from the English traders of the Northwest, dated August 10, 1791, which had been forwarded to Dorchester by Sir John Johnson, Superintendent of Indian Affairs. The traders had asked Johnson to “represent to Dorchester the alarming situation of their trade to the Southward of Detroit.” They expressed the hope that “His Excellency will use his influence to persuade the Indians to listen to terms of peace” (Brymner, Canadian Archives, 1890 description begins Douglas Brymner, ed., Report on Canadian Archives, 1890 (Ottawa, 1891). description ends , 302).