can cross the River. They will go to Buffaloe Creek and procure two Indian runners to accompany them, and two more to carry this letter to Kanadasea, where General Chapin is instantly to procure an express to carry it to Philadelphia We are with great respect Sir your most ob^dt Servant P.S. We could get no account of the number of the Indians at the cape [strikethrough: at the] except from the British Agents who told us they were about fifteen hundred Men. We have rated them accordingly, but suppose they are rather likely to be less than more — (Simd) B Lincoln Beverly Randolph Timothy Pickering [Committee of the United States] [From Philip Audebert a Clerk in the War Office — Received 4in Sept^r 1793] Sir In the absence of the Secretary of War, who is on his [undecipherable] to the Eastward I have the honor to acknowledge your letter of the 6^th of August with the sundry enclosures all of which I have this day transmitted to the Secretary I am