Daily Events at Post of Legion Ville
Document 1792Wayne recounts details of current peace discussion with Indians and regular update of events at post.
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[No 36
21 Dec. 1792
to
Genl Knox
[undecipherable]]
Legion Ville 21 Dec 1792
Sir
I have the honor to acknowledge your letter of the 9th Instant with the enclosures —
Say additional [portions?] of [returns?] of [persons?] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] together with the revised Instructions from
the [undecipherable] [adjutant?] vehicles of [a?] copy of the [undecipherable] making
plans [undecipherable] & supply of [provisions?] [undecipherable]
— and [Larger?] Patterns of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] [undecipherable]
back there will not be [any?] the number on [undecipherable]
[horses?] of [corps?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] [stated?] [by?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
— [undecipherable] continuing [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
Wishes of the [undecipherable] [it?] may also [assure?] they [undecipherable]
[It?] [undecipherable] with the [subject?] of the conditions [of?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
M[r?] [undecipherable] [Legion?] of 2500 men and to obtain their [undecipherable]
bounty of [land?] at the expiration of four years [then?]
[times?] for which they are enlisted— Many [information?]
to have & [them?] as were [different?] to doubt it—
There are [undecipherable] hundred of [not?] [Legion?] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] killed at [the?] [place?] called [M?]— the [roads?]
near [Fort Erie?] [undecipherable] probably will [attend?] the [undecipherable]
a [dispatch?] to the Governor [undecipherable] There [recently?] by [undecipherable]
already there [undecipherable] [with?] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] out of the [question?]
[undecipherable] The Officer of the [5th?] of
November which by my calculation was at least
four weeks after the annual activity before [undecipherable]
— I [am?] said with [undecipherable] [tend?] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[made?] their appearance [nearly?] about the [undecipherable]
At [Limestone?] [undecipherable] [operations?] within [undecipherable] Miles of
[places?] at [Wheeling?] [and?] [Fort Allegany?] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable]
[undecipherable]
[undecipherable] the [numbers?] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
— When [the?] [undecipherable] I allow [undecipherable] [undecipherable] believe that
[Steuling?] [undecipherable] to the hundred [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] Wheeling
[But?] No the [undecipherable] [is?] [capable?] to keep [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[apprise?] the [undecipherable] by [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[Artillery?]
[undecipherable] day [undecipherable] them [full?] [is?] there [undecipherable]
is [best?] from [cannon?] — probably [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
more than [care?] to [discern?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[There?] [any?] [ready?] to [Wheeling?] [undecipherable] [parties?]
A just Man has [no?] [undecipherable] to call [that?]
[Receipts?]
[Inform?] [Idem?] with [James?] [Wilkinson?]
Yours most Obt
[Humble Servt]
[signature: Anth Wayne]
[The Honorable
Major Genl Knox
Secretary of War]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Wayne recounts details of current peace discussion with Indians and regular update of events at post.
Date
12/21/1792
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Legion Ville
Repository
Collection
Document number
1792122140001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Henry Knox
Anthony Wayne
troops
garrison
good Indians
Indians
Notable locations
Legion Ville
Fort St. Clair
Notable items
peace
message
rations

