Letter from Federal Commissioners to Lieutenant Tinsley, commanding officer Fort Franklin, [no. 1]
Document 1793Letter from Federal Commissioners for Sandusky conference request assistance from Lieutenant Tinsley in expediting dispatch of letters to Major Craig at Pittsburg, to include the provision of armed guard. They relate that the western Indians have refused to make peace and ask that Tinsley communicate this information appropriately in order to ensure due vigilance on the frontier.
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accident prevents his proceeding, he is to forward it by an express whom we request you to pay.
We are Sir Yours &c
B. Lincoln
B. Randolph, Commissioners.
T. Pickering
Letter to Lieutenant Tinsley, &c Officer commanding at Fort Franklin. No 4
Sir, August 23d at Fort Erie.
The bearer Sylvester Ash, is charged with a letter from us to Major Craig at Pittsburg. We desire you to afford him every necessary aid to expedite and assist his journey thither, furnishing him if you think them necessary, such a guard of soldiers as you deem sufficient. The business requires the utmost dispatch.
The Western Indians have refused to make peace you will doubtless communicate this information to all persons within your reach, lest from an expectation of peace they should abate the vigilance necessary on an exposed frontier.
We are Sir
Yours &c
B. Lincoln
B. Randolph, Commissioners.
T. Pickering
Type
Copy of document
Description
Letter from Federal Commissioners for Sandusky conference request assistance from Lieutenant Tinsley in expediting dispatch of letters to Major Craig at Pittsburg, to include the provision of armed guard. They relate that the western Indians have refused to make peace and ask that Tinsley communicate this information appropriately in order to ensure due vigilance on the frontier.
Date
08/23/1793
Recipient
Sent from
Fort Erie
Document number
1793082390455
Page start
89
Note
Enclosed in [A Journal of the proceedings at Council with the Western Indians], 08/24/1793.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. This document is an integral part of [Public Reports] and other communications of the Secretary of War, 12/99/1793.
Notable persons
Lieutenant Tinsley commanding officer Fort Franklin
Federal Commissioners Sandusky
Benjamin Lincoln
Timothy Pickering
Beverley Randolph
Sylvester Ash
Major Craig at Pittsburgh
Western Indians
Notable locations
Fort Franklin
Fort Erie
Pittsburgh