Autograph Letter Signed

Supplies and Politics at Fort Pitt

Supplies to Fort Pitt, St. Clair to arrive shortly as chief command on frontier. Murder of friendly Indians at Beaver Creek should receive rigid inquiry.

Supplies and Politics at Fort Pitt

1791

03

24

War Department

Fort Pitt

Cited in Craig to Knox, 03/31/1791.

Cited document sent from the War Office

Isaac Craig

Henry Knox

General St. Clair

friendly Indians

Indians

Lieutenant Ernest

Messrs Turnbull and Marmie

Turbull

Marmie

Cornplanter

Fort Pitt

War Department

frontier

Beaver Creek

crimes

appointment

return of stores

command

murder

revenge

crime

murder

inquiry

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1

War department 24th March, 1791
Sir
I have received your letter dated
the 16th[editor's note: undecipherable] with the rations of the
stores lately arrived at Fort Pitt from
this city, together with those you received
from the person entrusted with them on
behalf of Lieut Ernest
Major General StClair who
is appointed to the chief command
on the frontiers, set out from this City
for Fort Pitt yesterday, but as the
roads are bad, he may not arrive
until after the post.
He will examine Fort
Pitt, and direct which buildings [editor's note: undecipherable]
shall be relinguished to Mess [ers] Turnbull
and Marmie, and which shall be [editor's note: undecipherable]
by the public, and repaired.
The murder of the friendly
Indians, at Beaver Creek, as stated by
the Cornplanter and you, is [editor's note: undecipherable]
unjustifiable affair and merits a rigid
enquiry. If such crimes are suffered
with impunity, the innocent and [editor's note: undecipherable, undecipherable] victims to the revenge of the
Indians, and a general War, will be
the consequence in which justice and
[editor's note: undecipherable] to us
I am [editor's note: undecipherable]
with esteem
your most obedient
servant [editor's note: signed] H Knox
[editor's note: to the left of Knox signature] Major I Craig.