Contemporary Copy of Letter

Notification of the Power to Call Upon the Militia

Secretary of War Henry Knox informs Robert Johnson, lieutenant of Woodford County, that his account of recent Indian hostilities in the area has been received and names those given authority to call up scouts to protect the frontier against any further incursions.

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War Office

Bound in volume entitled "Defensive Protection of the Frontier."

Robert Johnson

Henry Knox

Sciota

Ohio

Limestone

John Duvall

Harry Innes

Josiah Harmar

War Office

Woodford County

Western Territory

Harrison County

Virginia

Kentucky

Indian hostilities

militia

scouts

pay

act of Congress

The President of the United States, anxious that the exposed inhabitants of the fronters should be protected against the incursions of the Indians, directed on the 3rd of March last, that a condition of authority should be vested in the governor of the Western Territory or in case of his absence, the commanding officer, to empower the lieutenants of the counties lying along the ohio to call out at the expense of the union certain scouts for the protection of said counties.

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