Delivery of Rifles to Senecas
Document 1793Orders to deliver seven rifles to Jasper Parish then to be given to the six Seneca Indians presently in city.
Samuel Hodgdon Esq– No-71 Water Street– Between Arch and Race Streets. [typed at top of page: from State Dep’t. Nov. 24, 1894 R.P.O.401310] War Department, Feb:y 13th 1793. Sir. The Secretary of War requests the you will deliver to Jasper Parish, the bearer hereof for the Six Senaka Indians now in this city, (to wit The Farmers Brother, The Young King, China Breast Plate, The Infant; and John and Solomon) and for Red Jacket, a chief of the same nation, who is absent, Seven New Rifles, taking the necessary receipts from said Parish__If they should wish to have them packed up for transportation, the Secretary requests the you will attend to it. I am Sir, Your very humble Serv: John Stagg Junr Chf Clk
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