Cited in McHenry to Wilkinson, 05/25/1798.
Discussed a resignation, receipt of documents from various officers. Request for clothing and medical supplies.
Certification that $725.61 is due a detachment of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers stationed at West Point, being for the pay and forage of the commissioned officers, and the pay of the non-commissioned officers and privates, for February 1798.
Certification that $250.73 is due a detachment of recruits and a detachment of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers, late under the command of Sergeant Philip Williams, and now under the command of Captain Griffith McRea stationed at Wilmington, North Carolina being their pay from the date they were last paid until February 28, 1798.
Certification that $10.83 is due Private James Bushby, late of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers, being his pay from January 1 to March 22, 1798, the day his term of service expired.
The captain of the frigate United States reported that the seams of its deck are opened. Humphreys is to survey the problems and write an estimate of the repairs costs.
Informs Colonel Butler that no passports from state governors shall divert him from resisting the invasion of Indian lands by those bodies. McHenry insists that if they actually hold a passport, it was likely obtained under false pretenses with intention to violate the laws of the United States, and therefore all passports should be disregarded.
Refers to correspondence from Lieut. Col. Butler regarding Coxe. Questions support from the government and the state of Tennessee. Questions whether these Indians should escape the measures taken by Butler. Anxious about frontier citizens. Expects arrival of commissioners in Knoxville.
Encloses two letters on the subject of Zacharias Coxes. Hopes to explain measures taken to defeat this matter with Lieut. Col. Butler and Silas Dinsmore, with concern for the citizens of Tennessee.
Cover for receipts from Lt. David Hale, Capt. Frederick Frye, Frederick Sprig, Lt. Nehemiah Freeman, Foreman Cheeseman, Lt. Horatio Dayton, Lt. Peter A. Dransy, and George Fleming in the amounts listed.
