Account of Violence During Patrol
Document 1791Indians killed, men wounded.
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Fort Washington June [undecipherable], 1791
Sir
My last was of the 13th instant and from [undecipherable] time I have been [undecipherable] more the utmost exertion for the [undecipherable] of General Scott — a Report reached me on the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] that he was advanced and had [undecipherable] this [undecipherable] to come pretty [undecipherable] from this same Place, and in such a Manner as to [undecipherable] Doubt, but I have no information from him — [undecipherable] Report [undecipherable] that he advanced to the [Forks?] of [undecipherable] on the [11th?] — having destroyed two Indian Towns, one of which is [undecipherable] — in [undecipherable] killed thirty Indians and taken [undecipherable] Prisoners, part of whom [undecipherable] since [escaped?], having found [undecipherable] convenient to bring them on — without any [undecipherable] on [undecipherable] our [undecipherable] only and even in this than exceeded, having discovered [undecipherable] the woody [undecipherable] of which [undecipherable] I [undecipherable] have written to you at an earlier day and [undecipherable] the receipt of your letters by Major [Ferguson?] arrived here on the 13th instant, as all [undecipherable] left here [undecipherable] the last [undecipherable] and the rest they left [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [Company?] from [undecipherable] Carolina, but as I had nothing [undecipherable] to communicate, and it would be [undecipherable] to dispatch as [undecipherable] the movement General I also [undecipherable] I had determined to defer until these [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for across the [undecipherable] any the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] by Major [undecipherable] I [undecipherable] to write off — a few [undecipherable] [undecipherable] them from [undecipherable] and often and [undecipherable] how he [undecipherable], [undecipherable] I think it cannot perfectly [undecipherable] [Sunday?] and then I shall the honor to write again [undecipherable] — only particularly to your several Dispatches
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Indians killed, men wounded.
Date
06/23/1791
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Fort Washington
Collection
Document number
1791062340001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Henry Knox
Arthur St. Clair
patrol
Indians
Indian Nation
General Scott
Notable locations
Fort Washington
Indian towns

