1. William Blount’s letters, written at Knoxville to Knox on 12 and 15 May, reported on the activities of the Indians in the Southwest Territory (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 1:453–54; see also JPP description begins Dorothy Twohig, ed. The Journal of the Proceedings of the President, 1793–1797. Charlottesville, Va., 1981. description ends , 168). No letter from Blount to Knox of 28 April has been identified, but Knox may have meant Blount’s two letters of 25 April (Knox to Tobias Lear, 18 May; JPP description begins Dorothy Twohig, ed. The Journal of the Proceedings of the President, 1793–1797. Charlottesville, Va., 1981. description ends , 144).

2. In March, Benjamin Lincoln, Timothy Pickering, and Beverley Randolph received commissions to negotiate a peace treaty at Lower Sandusky with the Indians of the Northwest Territory (GW to U.S. Senate [second letter], 1 Mar. 1793). Pickering and Randolph set out from Philadelphia on 30 April for Fort Niagara, where they expected to meet Lincoln. On 13 May they arrived at the Seneca village of Canawaugus, on the west side of the Genesee River across from present-day Avon, New York. Here, Randolph and Pickering received “a written speech, and four strings of white wampum, sent by the Western Indians to the President. In this, they insisted on Sandusky as the place of treaty. This speech and strings, the commissioners enclosed in a letter to General Knox” (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 1:342–43). GW’s executive journal for 11 June records that Knox sent him a letter “from two of the Commissione[r]s dated Canauaga 13th. May, enclosing a speech which was given to them by some of the six Nations, said to be from the hostile Indians” (JPP description begins Dorothy Twohig, ed. The Journal of the Proceedings of the President, 1793–1797. Charlottesville, Va., 1981. description ends , 168). The letter to Knox of 13 May and the enclosed speech have not been identified.