Requesting Orders to General Wayne to Abstain from Hostilities
Document 1793In this letter the Federal Commissioners for Sandusky Conference request that President Washington issue fresh orders to Major General Anthony Wayned to abstain from hostilites and to remain quietly at posts.
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[Letter to the President of the United States]
Sir, Niagara 10th July 1793.
General Knox will I presume lay before you our communications of this date. We address you that we may literally comply with our promise to the deputies of the Western Indians, that we would desire you to dispatch orders to General Wayne not only to abstain from hostilities, but to remain quietly at his posts, until the result of the treaty should be known: our sentiments on this subject are fully expressed in our letter to the Secretary of War, to which we must beg leave to refer. Those sentiments your own solicitude for peace will sufficiently enforce.
We are Sir
With great respect
Your &c:
B. Lincoln,
B. Randolph, Commissioners.
T. Pickering
Letter to General Knox.
Niagara 10th July 1793.
Sir,
In our instructions we are directed to stipulate the compensation to the Indians in goods by a tariff comprehending the prime cost, and charges of transportation. We have no means of forming the Tariff. We request you to send us by Mc Parish, the prices of all Indian goods, and the usual expence of transportation from Philadelphia to Pittsburg.
Type
Copy of document
Description
In this letter the Federal Commissioners for Sandusky Conference request that President Washington issue fresh orders to Major General Anthony Wayned to abstain from hostilites and to remain quietly at posts.
Date
07/10/1793
Recipient
Sent from
Niagara Navy Hall
Document number
1793071040155
Page start
57
Note
Cited in Knox to Wayne, 07/20/1793. This document is enclosed in instructions to the commissioners appointed to deal with the hostile Indians north of the Ohio, in the form of a journal of their proceedings, submitted to the House of Representatives on December 4, 1793.
Notable persons
Henry Knox
President of United States General George Washington
Federal Commissioners Sandusky Conference
Benjamin Lincoln
Timothy Pickering
Beverley Randolph
Major General Anthony Wayne
Notable locations
Niagara
Navy Hall

