War department March 16 1793 Sir. I have understood that a Man resided at Fort Pitt, who was an excellent interpreter of the Shawanese Tongue — and perhaps also of the Delaware. the name Mr Hodgdon forgets, but says he serves as a pilot to Boats going down the Ohio. I pray you to enquire out this Man, and if he should be a master of the Shawanese and Delaware tongues or either of them, and otherwise a man of good character and faithful to the United States — I request that you would send him to me; provided he should be willing to be employed as Interpreter under the Commissioners who are to hold the treaty with the hostile Indians at Sandusky in the ensuing spring — It will be necessary he should be in this City early in April — I am Sir Your humble Servant [signature] Major Isaac Craig