[N^o 15] From Gen^l Knox Sep^t for war War department September 1^st 1792. Sir Your favors of the 17 and 20 ult: have been received. I have directed a person to be sent to examine the road from hence to Pittsburgh to see whether there any stores lingering upon the road, and if so, to accelerate them & report the delay greatest — but Major Craig writes on the 20^th that several waggon loads of stores had just arrived. I submitted your letter of the 17 instant and shall duly submit that of the 20 instant to the President of the United States. I have not yet had time to consider of your propositions for carrying on the war, in case pacific overtures should fail — in general they when first sight appear judicious and do have been well weighed by you, and an explicit answer shall be transmitted thereon upon the receipt of the Presidents opinion. I wish you have been pleased to transmit the information which gives you the belief that Sandusky is not mostly abandoned by the women and children — The indians may be raising some corn there but I believe no more — I am apprehensive that any expedition against that place without further information would be pushing against a cloud. No doubt however can be entertained of the propriety of accumulating the magazines of forage & provisions you propose at Fort Washington and the posts advanced there — and you will please explicitly to understand that if you you had not the authority before — that it is hereby fully vested in you. As this is the season for laying up salt provisions the Contractors will take your orders upon that head — they are bound by the contract to lay up three months for the Garrisons, but you will require at your advanced posts a far greater quantity of which you will please maturely to consider & order accordingly. The fine grained powder has been forwarded to the amount of forty small casks — all the clothing has been forwarded excepting for Fords company of artillery, which will be forwarded immediately. I do not estimate that the Virginia Rifle Companies will be at the mouth of the Great Kenhawa before the 15^th of this month — Stephenons, Breckinens Hannahs attachments will be soon with you. Eatons company has not yet arrived from the Eastward — when it does — I hope from Jersey & New York to make it a detachment of one hundred and fifty men. The recruiting service has been almost at a Stand — I know not how it can be stimulated, only by an additional sum to their pay for which no authority exists — perhaps in the autumn and winter we may complete the numbers authorized. Have you ordered your paymaster up from Fort Washington? I have been waiting for Eatons company to send on money to complete the pay to the first of august and also ten thousand Dollars for the Quarter master which his agent has drawn from the Treasury — but I believe some other the opportunity must be sought. I have the honor to be with great respect your obedient Servant Knox Sep^t for war Major Gen^l Wayne