[Docket: June 19^th 1792 / [undecipherable] / [underline: Gen^l Knox.]] New York June 19. 1792 Sir Cap^t Brant with whom I am personally acquainted having called upon me, in the course of [conversations] intimated a Wish [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] Desires that as little parade as possible may [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] be observed with Respect to him. — [undecipherable] his arrival may be, announced as an early visit to his [friends] in your City [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] to pay his personal Respects to the President of the United States — His political Situation [undecipherable], with respect to the British his Bitterness the Endeavours [undecipherable], that great [undecipherable] may may possibly injure his Interest, & [undecipherable] an Influence which may [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] be [useful] to the United States. [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] I have the Honor to be with great Respect Sir Your Obed^t Hum^ble Ser^vt [undecipherable: H.C.?] General Knox. [Left margin notations: 1. [undecipherable] 2. W[undecipherable] [undecipherable] 3. [undecipherable] 4. [undecipherable] [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, Cap^t Joseph Brant of the British Army, the famous Mohawk [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] 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: [undecipherable]] to [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] Visit [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] the City of Philadelphia also & pay his [Respects] to the President of the United States. June 19^th 1792.