than Wampum; for this reason and also for the purpose of ensuring a full supply we have continued our request to Major Craig to send us 40 or 50,000. The letters to Major Craig will be sent by some Indian Runners, whom Parish will dispatch from Buffalo Creek, to the Cornplanters settlement; where they may be delivered to the Runners who are well acquainted with the route. M^r Parish the bearer of this says he can reach Philadelphia in 8 or 10 days, and will return in as many more we pray you to give him all needful dispatch. The Doctors Medicine Chest was left at Philadelphia; It seems that on his way he has bought a pound of bark and a few other articles of small account. Perhaps as the treaty may now be postponed to a later season than was expected, it may be expedient for M^r Parish to bring a pound of bark, and such other articles as the Physicians you consulted shall recommend, and Parish can conveniently bring. We are Sir Yours &^c B. Lincoln, B. Randolph, } Commissioners T. Pickering. The Commissioners having discharged twenty of their batteaumen they gave the following order for the residue of their pay. To General Knox. Sir, Niagara 27^th May 1793. As a less sum was put into the hands of the Commissioners than you expected, and as by a delay which will probably take place respecting the assembling of the Indians, our expences will be augmented, we have thought it best to draw on you for the sum of four hundred and sixty one dollars and seventy five cents, which draft we doubt not you will honor at sight, and cause payment to be made, so as best to accomodate the Drawees. We are Sir Yours &^c B. Lincoln, in behalf of himself and the other Commissioners } N.B. This draft was in favour of Cornelius A. Van Slyck of Schenectady and delivered to his agent Jos. [undecipherable: probable reading Menderen]. Letter to Colonel McKee, Deputy Superintendant of Indian Affairs. Sir, Navy Hall 30^th. May 1793. We having been appointed Commissioners of the United States to hold a treaty with the Indians at Sandusky, and the time proposed for holding the treaty being the first of June, met at this place on the 25^th Instant, and should have proceeded to Sandusky, but for your letter to Major Littlehales of the 11^th of April, in which you express your opinion that the Indians would not be assembled until the last of June and desire that the Commissioners may be apprized of it. We felt ourselves obliged by this attention to our convenience, and in consequence of this information determined to remain here a few Weeks, or until further advice from you should point out the