[27] 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 50 or 50000. The letter to Major Craig will be sent by some Indian Runners, who will dispatch from Buffaloe back, to the Cornplanter settlement, where they may be delivered to the Runners who are well acquainted with the route. M^r Parish the bearer of this [strikethrough: may 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, 29^th May 1793 As a [undecipherable] sum was paid into the hands of the Commissioners