express to Pittsburgh and from thence to this place the Blank & other Commissions with the Presidents signature, for the mounted volunteer officers of Kentucky; — all the General Returns will be forwarded the next favorable opportunity. — I am with sentiments of Esteem your most obed^t hum^d Serv^t Wayne [to the Hon^ble Maj: Gen^l Knox Sec^y of war.] N° 62. To Major Gen^l Knox, Sec^y of war. Hobsons Choice near Fort Washington 10. July 1793. Sir, I have the honor to enclose you copies of my letters & dispatches of the 20^th Ultimo & 9^th instant. — No troops or stores have yet arrived nor have I heard any thing of them since your last letter of the 7^th of June except what I mentioned in my letter of the 2^d — I therefore feel very uneasy that this long delay, and the state of the water may prevent their timely arrival. — The savage Commissioners are assembling a force three hundred [undecipherable] of theirs actually passed in [undecipherable] at [undecipherable] on the 5^th Ultimo and were to be joined on their way to the rapids of the Miame, [undecipherable] from the Mississippi, Lake Michigan &c.^a which fully corroborates Col. M^cKee's letter. — a strong confederacy is actually forming against us. in the Interim M^r Simcoe only means to amuse & trifle with our Commissioners until every thing is in perfect readiness to in [undecipherable] proper train to declare a boundary line & to hoist the design of war. — I may possibly be mistaken, but I fear that the prediction will be found but too true. — I have the honor to be with respect & esteem your most Obed^t hum^d Serv^t Wayne [to the Hon^ble Major Gen^l Knox Sec^y of war] N° 63. To Major Gen^l Knox Secretary of war Head Quarters Hobsons Choice near Fort Washington 8. August 1793. Sir, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 28^th of June as also your two letters of the 20^th Ultimo with their respective enclosures — which came to hand yesterday — due attention shall be paid them. — Having already fully explained the cause and motives which influenced me to [undecipherable] a real and [undecipherable] the deposits of Corn provisions at the head of the line, to my letters of the 9^th of May, 20^th of June and 2^d of July, to which I must beg leave to refer you. I feel it useless to trouble you with any other or further explanation upon those interesting subjects, and have only [undecipherable] that those preparatory arrangements should have occasioned such unnecessary alarms or apprehensions in the minds of our Commissioners & the hostile Indians especially after the assurances given by me to the Corn Planter and New Arrow and with which they were well acquainted. — The fact is that no road has been opened beyond Fort Jefferson, nor in any other direction but towards it except to avoid impassable ground such as swamps & [undecipherable: morasses], nor have there been any new works erected [undecipherable] of that [undecipherable] those are [undecipherable] of the Indian information mentioned by the Commissioners is unfounded. — The accumulation of Flour & grain as [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] has been too much neglected by the Contractors and Q. M. General's departments preparitory to my