War Office 13 September 1796. Sir, I have received your letters of 29 April 18 May. 6 June and 8 July last. You will perceive by the enclosed Copy of an extract of a letter from the Superintendent of military Stores and invoice, that goods for the six nations to the amount of 2512 ⁷⁷/₁₀₀ dollars were forwarded to you on the 8^t. of August. There will also be remitted to you by M^r. Francis Pinney or D^r. one thousand six hundred [undecipherable] dollars, which with 350 Dollars paid to M^r. Bacon attorney to the Reverend John [undecipherable] Agent for the Stockbridge Indians, constitutes their annuity for the year 1796. These two sums are to be distributed among the Senecas, Onondagas, Oneidas, Tuscaroras, Munsees, and Cayuga Indians in the ratios of their relative numbers. You will be pleased to report to me the proportion assigned to each. It has been stated to me, by the Secretary of State M^r. Pickering, that the Stockbridge Indians are intitled to receive 350 dollars being their proportion of the annuity and that he had promised that the first and second years should be paid them in money. In consequence of this promise and an Agent having attended here to receive it they have been paid 50 dollars as well as a balance of 170 Dollars which M^r. Pickering informed me was due of their first years proportion. You will be pleased to give your attention to this circumstance so as not to pay any part of what is remitted you to any of the Stockbridge Indians. There was Money sent to Fort Pitt to satisfy for the Indian murder of which sixty dollars was offered and refused as being too little. You will be pleased to compromise the affair with the parties and pay them. — Sam Sir with respect Your Ob^dt. Servant. James McHenry Sec^y. of War Israel Chapin Jun^r d^y.