Extract of a letter from General Knox Secretary of the War Department to Isaac Craig dated 13^th Feb^y 1791 Sir You are hereby appointed to take charge of all the public stores belonging to the United States which shall be deposited at Fort Pitt &^c From same to same date 15^th June 1792 I am persuaded that your conduct since you have been in office, will bear the strictest examination. I have often had the pleasure to approve it, and hope the pleasure will be often repeated. I am convinced your compensation is made ample for your services, and I shall endeavour that it shall be satisfactory to you, as far as my power extends. I conceive your present will be as Deputy Quarter Master General." From same to same date 27^th [undecipherable] 1792. I confidence in your character has been the reason of my reposing confidence in you —" From same to same date 17^th Feb^y 1792 " I have had an established confidence as well in your integrity as in your zeal to promote the public service; nor have I any reason to change it." From same to same date 24^th November 1792 "I am anxious to know whether you will accept of the office of being Commissary General, as no time can be lost in that business. In case you accept you must also appoint a deputy for Fort Pitt and the Upper parts of the Ohio" From same to same date 2^nd Dec^r 1794 "I shall expect to hear from you on the subject of the Commissary post, by the return of the post on the 6^th instant."