Following the visit of the Five Nations delegation to Philadelphia, Knox provides detailed instructions to Chapin on the appropriation of $1500 per year annuity to the Five Nations and Stockbridge Indians. Chapin is to select blacksmiths, carpenters and schoolmasters of unblemished integrity and who will set a good example. Would prefer school masters with livestock husbandry skills. Blacksmiths should be able to repair guns. Carpenters should be able to fix wheels. They should be equipped with the tools of their trade. They should be married men and should be provided with livestock such as oxen, cow, a bull. Knox provides a list of expenses.
Wives should teach the Indian girls spinning, sewing and knitting. Farms of the schoolmaster, blacksmith and carpenter will be adjacent, and the school house will be nearby. The Indian children will go to school, work on the farms and some will work for the Blacksmith and Carpenter. Indian girls will learn how to milk cows. Indians will be instructed on works of creation on Sundays, but not the peculiar doctrines of revealed religion. Indians will be treated with gentleness and will not engage in work unless whites are doing the same. Keep regular accounts. Teach men to plow and give them chains, oxen and carts. Teach how to grow and cultivate hay. Encourage Indians to learn the art of blacksmithing and carpentry. Boys and girls who learn skills and read will receive a suit of clothes. Chiefs will be rewarded with livestock.
Hamill expresses his disappointment at not receiving the stores and baggage that he had written for. When he left Fort Washington Hodgdon knew perfectly well that he had no horses assigned to him for the purpose of conveying a single article. When Hodgdon assured him that if he wanted anything it would be attended to, he trusted his reliability. Now Hamill is at Fort St. Clair without stores or baggage. Who he should apply to now he does not know.
It took seventeen days for Haskell to travel from Fort Washington to Marietta. He has applied to Major Craig for clothing but has not received any. Haskell's troops and those already at Marietta are in a wretched situation with respect to clothing and accoutrements. Ensign Tillinghast has been employed to erect a blockhouse which is not yet finished. Haskell has been at some expense in putting it in order and fixing one apartment in it for a magazine or depository for military stores. A smith has been employed to repair the arms and a surgeon employed to take care of the sick soldiers.
Having received and accepted an appointment as an ensign in a company of infantry, Marschalk resigns as Conductor of Military Stores. He expresses the high sense he entertains of the many instances of politeness and friendship he has experienced from Hodgdon and expresses his ardent wish that his future conduct will continue to justify same.
Enclosed is the Power of Attorney given by Lt. Little of the levies to Dayton. Howell is asked to place this business in such a train that Dayton may be assured that the monies due him cannot be diverted from his hands into some other's.
This is Washington's message to the representatives of the Five Nations in which he expresses his hope for peace and friendship between the tribes and the United States and his intention to increase their annuity to $1500.
Upon inquiry, Wilkins finds that Mr. Levy, one of the gentlemen that purchased the remains of Mr. Duncan's goods, has Hodgdon's two chests of tea in his possession. If Hodgdon has any ideas as to how to dispose of the tea, Wilkins awaits his instructions.
