[N° 64. To Major Gen'l Knox / Sec'y of war] Hobsons Choice near Fort Washington 17. Sept 1793. Sir, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your several letters of the 27. July, the — & 10th. of August & 3d. instant with their respective enclosures; the last came to hand yesterday evening. On the 11th. an express boat arrived from Pittsburgh with the first letter from the Commissioners dated Fort Erie 23d. August 1793. of which you have alre. enclosed me a copy; on the same day, i.e. on the 11th instant one of my confidential agents arrived at Fort Jefferson accompanied by one Indian who came to this place on the 14th.— I examined him very minutely upon his arrival, a second time next morning and a third time on the 16th when his testimony was taken in writing; which I believe to be authentic as he did not deviate from first to last in any part of his information, of which he has signed duplicates: he appears to be very well informed considering the opportunity he has had and an honest, sober man and most certainly in the confidence of the Indians from his prowess in war; he has often accompanied them in their desultory parties and took a conspicuous part against us on the fatal 4th of November 1791.: he faithfully executed the trust reposed in him last fall by Gen'l Putnam and as faithfully [which was] that reposed in him by me upon the present occasion. Its true I have made it his [underline: interest] to be & continue faithful to the United States for this Campaign at least.— Its much to be regretted that the Commissioners would not take or believe the final answer, solemnly delivered to them on the 31st. of July by the deputation of chiefs appointed for that purpose in full Council; but rather chose to place confidence in a Mr. Mathew Elliot, an artful, designing, interested man, [underline: the partner of Col'o McKee,] who was apprehensive that we should receive intelligence [underline: too soon,] and be better prepared for a forward move in due season and before the grass should fail.— I fear that has succeeded but too well; however we must do the best we can to protect the frontiers: nor shall any thing be left unattempted to bring forward the mounted Volunteers in order to defeat the machinations of our enemies.— I have therefore called upon major Gen'l Scott to join me at Fort Jefferson on or before the 1st of October i.e. in the course of thirteen days from this period & anxiously wait his answer.— In the interim I have ordered the Q. M. General and the Contractors to collect their whole force or means of transportation, which were unfortunately widely scattered & deranged just as they had got into operation in consequence of the alarming letter from the Commissioners dated the 10th. of July last: however that was not the only instance in which B—h intrigue & policy has been practised with success upon them during their mission.— I have now the honor to enclose a list of promotions & appointments in the several Corps of the Legion of the United States, together with the organization of the Sub-Legions, such as appeared to me best adapted to the service for which they are at present intended and as nearly agreeable to that of the President as existing circumstances would admit of; and which I found were essentially necessary previously to taking the field.— I have also the honor to enclose copies of my General Orders preparatory thereto; and hope that the whole will meet the approbation of the President.— I have some difficulty in my mind respecting the propriety of my acting upon the sentence of the Gen'l Court Martial held upon Ensign John Morgan of the 1st Sublegion; as it originated in charges exhibited by major Gen'l St. Clair previously to his resignation, as filed in your office and before I was called into service I have therefore thought it my duty to transmit the proceedings of that Court to be acted on & decided upon as the President or you may think proper to direct.— I have recently acted upon three General Courts martial held upon Lieut's Diven, W'm C. Smith and Dan'l. St. Thos. Jenifer; and hope that those examples & reprimands will have the desired effect. No. — contains copies of letters from Piomingo to General Robertson & from that Gen'l to me, together with the report of Lieut. Clark, who had charge of the stores &ca. for the Chickasaws; for which you will find regular Receipts.— This young gentleman has executed his orders (a copy of which I had the honor to transmit you some time since) with a promptitude & address that does him honor & merits my highest approbation.— he has brought with him a Chickasaw Chief named [underline: Underwood] and eight warriors who appear determined and anxious for action.— Agreeably to your orders I have determined the Relative Rank of the Captains throughout the line, i.e. their Legionary Rank, as also the Sublegionary rank of the Subalterns which I have now the honor to enclose: should there be any error the documents in your office will correct them.— It would appear that there are two or three little alterations to be made as to the dates or times of promotion in two or three instances, particularly in that of Cap't. Greaton's who was entitled to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Cap't. Rich'd. S. Howe, which you will find mentioned in the marginal notes.— I have the honor to be with sincere esteem your most obed't & very hum'ble Serv't Wayne the Hon'ble Major Gen'l Knox Sec'y of war.—