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Request for Interpreter of Shawanese and Delaware tongue

Knox asks about a man at Fort Pitt, who was an excellent interpreter of Shawanese and perhaps Delaware tongue. Hodgdon forgot his name. He serves as boat pilot on Ohio River. Knox wants to employ this man under the commissioners holding treaty at Sandusky.

Request for interpreter of Shawanese and Delaware tongue

1793

03

16

War Department

Isaac Craig

Henry Knox

Samuel Hodgdon

interpreter

Shawanese

commissioners

boat pilot

Delaware

hostile Indians

War Department

Fort Pitt

Sandusky

Ohio River

treaty

boat

employed

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War department
March 16 1793
Sir
I have understood that a man resides at Fort Pitt, who was
an excellent interpreter of the Shawanese Tongue – and perhaps also of
the Delaware. the name M. Hodgdon forgets, but says he serves as
a pilot to Boats going down the Ohio.
I pray you to enquire out this man, and if he
should be a master of the Shawanese and Delaware tongues or
either of them and otherwise a man of good character and faithful
to the United States – I request that you would send him to me,
provided he should be willing to be employed as Interpreter under
the Commissioners who are to hold the treaty with the hostile
Indians at Sandusky in the ensuing spring –
It will be necessary he should be in this City
early in April –
I am
Sir
Your humble Servant
KNOX
Major Isaac Craig