Letter to Captain Israel Chapin, Canandaigua requesting that Chapin forward letter to General Knox with utmost dispatch

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Letter to Captain Israel Chapin, Canandaigua requesting that Chapin forward letter to General Knox with utmost dispatch

Description

Presumably addressed to the younger Israel Chapin, from the Federal Commissioners for Sandusky Conference; they report that the Western Indians refuse to make peace and ask that Chapin forward correspondence to General Knox regarding such with utmost dispatch.

year created

1793

month created

08

day created

23

author

Federal Commissioners Treaty at Sandusky

sent from location

Fort Erie

recipient

Israel Chapin Jr

sent to location

Canadaigua New York

in collection

Third Congress: Transcribed Confidential Reports and Other Communications Transmitted by the Secretary of War to the House of Representatives, 3d Congress, 1st Session, 1793, Vol. II [3C-B2] (RG 233) {M1268, roll 14}
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Enclosed in [A Journal of the proceedings at Council with the Western Indians], 08/24/1793.This document is enclosed in instructions to the commissioners appointed to deal with the hostile Indians north of the Ohio, in the form of a journal of their proceedings, submitted to the House of Representatives on December 4, 1793. This document is an integral part of [Public Reports] and other communications of the Secretary of War, 12/99/1793.

author note

Benjamin Lincoln; Beverly Randolph; Timothy Pickering.

cited note

Cited document that was neither sent to nor from the War Office

notable person/group

Israel Chapin
Federal Commissioners
Benjamin Lincoln
Timothy Pickering
Beverley Randolph
Henry Knox

notable location

Canandaigua New York
Fort Erie
Western Indians
Sandusky

document number

1793082390855

page start

92

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Document names

Type Name Location Notes
Author Federal Commissioners Treaty at Sandusky Fort Erie [n/a]
Recipient Israel Chapin Jr Canadaigua New York [n/a]