[Dfa] New York June 19^th 1792 Captⁿ Brant with whom I am personally acquainted having called upon me, in the course of Conversation [strikethrough: undecipherable] intimated a Wish [strikethrough: undecipherable] Desire that as little Parade as possible may [strikethrough: undecipherable] be observed with Respect to him. — [strikethrough: And that] his Arrival may be early announced as a Visit to his [strikethrough: Acquaintances] friends in your City & to pay his personal Respects to the President of the United States. His political Situation is such, with Respect to the British his Bitterness the [undecipherable] [undecipherable], that great Parade may may possibly injure his Interest. [strikethrough: obtaining an Influence which may] [strikethrough: undecipherable] be useful [strikethrough: undecipherable] the United States. [strikethrough: undecipherable] I have the Honor to be with great Respect &c. Your obed^t hum^t [undecipherable] General Knox. [Marginalia, undecipherable] Yesterday arrived in this City from his Settlement at Grand River on the North Side of Lake Erie, on a Visit to some of his Friends & Acquaintances in this Quarter, Capt. Joseph Brant of the British Army, the famous Mohawk [strikethrough: undecipherable: probable reading Sachem] Chief; who so eminently distinguished himself during the late War, as the Military Leader of the six Nations; — We are informed that he intends [strikethrough: to] to [strikethrough: undecipherable] visit [strikethrough: the] City of Philadelphia also & pay his Respects to the President of the United States. June 19^th 1792.