[Private] Philadelphia July 18. 1794 Dear Sir, I have the pleasure to enclose you an appointment for your Brother as Lieutenant in the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers. I hope his conduct will not diminish the military reputation of the Family. But you omitted a small but essential ceremony— his name— please to transmit it Wayne will do well— He has been by this time reinforced with two thousand nominally say fifteen hundred actually of the mounted Volunteers from Kentucky probably of the best sort— Scott who is to command them with two Brigadiers, writes me on the fourteenth of June that they were making the appointments and that every thing was in forwardness— Wayne's troops are good and I think he will move 1900 effectives perhaps 2000— His supplies are abundant. Ten thousand barrels of flour being at Fort Washington and on the communication— the only doubt is the ability to transport the flour to an army constantly receding from the Magazines. He has orders that if the Contractors do not the transportation effectually which I believe they will be able to do, [strikethrough: then] he is to interfere with the whole efficacy of the United States— The three ^british Companies were at the Rapids of the Miami in June and I believe are there still. If so and a favorable opportunity presents he will remove them gently. The Six Nations oppose the establishment at Presqu Isle and I believe that affair will take its completion from a treaty with those tribes on [strikethrough: the Lake]. Nothing will or ought to be hurried — I am Dear Sir Your most obed^t hum^ble serv^t H Knox Jonathan Dayton Esq^r