Tuesday May 21^st 1793. The Commissioners wrote the following letter to General Knox Secretary of War. Navy Hall, opposite Niagara, May 21^st 1793 Sir, At the moment of our arrival at the landing — (Lewiston) seven miles above this place on the 17^th we sent you by M^r Thomas Morris an extract of a letter from Colonel McKee of Detroit of which we now enclose a duplicate; it being important that you should be apprized of the probable delay for at least one month in commencing the Treaty, and because of the importance of the information we repeat it. On the 17^th we waited on Governor Simcoe and express'd a desire that a Vessel might be sent to Oswego for General Lincoln and the stores. He asserted with the utmost readiness to have it done as soon as a vessel capable of entering the port of Oswego should arrive, and he daily expected one from Kingston (Fort Frontenac) but she is not yet arrived. The only vessel here was a large topsail Schooner bound to Kingston and waiting for a wind. It seems probable therefore, that General Lincoln will be obliged to proceed hither with his batteaux. There is no tolerable tavern in this part of the Country. We are at present at the Governors, he had provided for us, and insisted upon our taking beds at his house, and of partaking of such accomodations with him, as this settlement could afford. In a former letter we mentioned the information of the Seneka Chiefs; that Captain Brant had set off with a number of Mohawks for the Westward. His departure must have been about the 5^th of this month, and doubtless his principal object was to attend the preparatory council of the Indians to be held at the rapids of the Miami, as is mentioned by Colonel McKee. We know not when a conveyance of this letter will present, we shall embrace the first. We are &c (B. Randolph, T. Pickering. On the same day (May 21^st) The Commissioners sent the following message in writing by Henry to his father the Cornplanter, New Arrow, and the other Senaka Chiefs in their settlements. Brothers — By your conference with General Wayne about sixty days ago, we find it was proposed that you should beat Niagara about this time, to meet the Commissioners of the United States, and go with them to the treaty to be held at Sandusky. We take this method to inform you of our arrival here, and that General Lincoln the other Commissioner, who went by the way of the Mohock river and Oswego is expected in a few days to join us. We have time to give you this information and to repeat the invitation to you to accompany us to the Treaty because it will not begin at Sandusky so soon as we expected. The Great Chief of the United States, had proposed the first of June (ten days hence) for the opening of the Treaty. But Colonel McKee writes that the Western Indians will not be able to assemble so soon, probably not till the last of June. We therefore in give