[Genl. Knox — near Kanandajsea Jany 17. 1792] Kanadarjsea Jan'y 17 [undecipherable] 1. I did myself the honor to address [strikethrough: from from] you the [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] acquaint you [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] our invitation [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] Buffaloe [undecipherable] [undecipherable] going [undecipherable] as soon as I could set the trail[s] ready [undecipherable] out [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [Capt.?] Hendrick & one other [undecipherable] [undecipherable]. [undecipherable] [undecipherable] are appointed for our rendezvous. The day before [undecipherable] arrived at Kanadarjsea after a most [undecipherable] journey, by reason of the extreme cold weather & [undecipherable]. The old Chiefs were so [undecipherable] now [undecipherable] in [undecipherable], [undecipherable] a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] were [undecipherable]. [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] their homes, in [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Two Seneka Chiefs are hunting in this vicinity & sent [undecipherable] to be notified of my arrival. [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the Indians are much alarmed with their [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] is so much divided in [undecipherable] what causes [undecipherable] later. [undecipherable] western Confederacy [undecipherable] the war with vigour the ensuing spring [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] & Brant [undecipherable] will be obliged to take a decisive part — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Seneka [undecipherable] were in the war at the [undecipherable: Maumee], [undecipherable] [undecipherable] were [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] two [undecipherable] scalps sent to them since the battle [undecipherable] they were presented by a [undecipherable: Cayuga]. This is a [undecipherable] of what he must expect on condition he accepts to join them. [undecipherable] I am credibly [undecipherable] that Brant he [undecipherable] himself [undecipherable] yet with the insinuating [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] his having left so much of his [undecipherable] among the Indians, particularly the western Confederacy. Yesterday I had a long conference with a M^r [undecipherable: Stedman], who [undecipherable] at Fort Schlosser [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] for many years [undecipherable] the carrying place [undecipherable] of Niagara, which [undecipherable] He left Niagara eight days ago — in company with [undecipherable: Eprain] Paine. He gives me the following in [undecipherable]: that some time [undecipherable] he left Niagara, [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable: Deganoora] had returned from Detroit [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] Gen. St Clair's [undecipherable] [undecipherable] & many [undecipherable] papers which he was to [undecipherable] at Montreal — that the Indians [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] the frontier in some parts during the whole course of the winter — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable: Muskingum] & the settlements on [undecipherable: Brush] Creek [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] were [undecipherable], [undecipherable] & very active. M^r [undecipherable: Stedman] also told me he had been well in formed, that between 20000 [undecipherable] from Detroit, mostly [undecipherable], were with the Indians in the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the Indians [undecipherable] action at the [undecipherable: Maumee] [undecipherable] Indians [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] at a [undecipherable] distance from the place of action that the Indians had been plentifully supplied with [undecipherable] [undecipherable] he had [undecipherable] over the carrying place, 18 [undecipherable] boat loads at one time [undecipherable] for Detroit [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for the Indian Department [undecipherable] He also [undecipherable] to me that he had [undecipherable] over the [undecipherable] of Niagara [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that the [undecipherable] had built two [undecipherable] in Lake [undecipherable] past years — Gordon had lately been sent up [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in a large [undecipherable], to be built [undecipherable] that they had [undecipherable: expended] between two & three thousand pounds in repairing the [undecipherable] of Niagara; the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — I reckon this circumstance [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable: Operations] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] on the minds of the Indians. — [undecipherable] I [undecipherable] the [undecipherable]. It is doubtful in regard to the Fish-Carriers coming down. I hear he is much [undecipherable] with the running of the [undecipherable] on the [undecipherable] Reservation [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] on the [undecipherable] square, which he always [undecipherable] [undecipherable] his own property — [undecipherable] in the Deed [undecipherable] to the State, New York. — [undecipherable] to proceed for Genesee early this morning, am just now ready [undecipherable] the Indians — I a— Sir in great truth [undecipherable] your ob^t. hum^t. Serv^t Near Kanadarjsea S. Kirkland [undecipherable] Tuesday morn^g [undecipherable] Hon^bl. Gen^l. Knox. S.W.D.