The Kentucky Gazette

LEXINGTON, NOV 19

War Department, 29th. September 1791.

SIR,

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the copy of your report of the 21st ultimo to major general St. Clair, which I have submitted to the President of the United States.

I have by this day's post instructed major general St. Clair, if he had not already performed that pleasing duty, to thank you in the name of the President, for the zeal, perseverance and good conduct, manifested by you in the command of the expedition, ---and for the humanity observed towards the prisoners whom you captured.---And also to thank the officers and privates of the Volunteers, for their activity and bravery while under your command---and to express his hope, that you and they may enjoy in future entire peace, as a reward for your services.

Mr. Butler, was waiting to receive the muster rolls of your corps --.-He has settled the accounts, and returns with the money for the amount.

I have the honor to be

With great respect, Sir,

Your most obt.

Hum. Servant,

H. KNOX.

Brigadier General

JAMES WILKINSON.

Camp, 81 miles advanced of Fort Washington, Nov. 1, 1791.

SIR,

I have the honor to enclose to you a letter from the war office which came to my hand last night as did that also for General Scott, Henry Innis, and John Brown Esquires which I request you to take the trouble to transmit to them./By the same conveyance I am directed to present to you the thanks of the publick, in the name of the President of the United States, for the zeal, perseverance and good conduct manifested by you in the command of the expedition against L'Anguille, and for the humanity observed towards the prisoners, whom you captured, and also to thank the officers & privates of the volunteers for their activity and bravery while under your command.

This sir is a very pleasing task to me and what I should have taken upon myself to do immediately on receiving your report had I not conceived it more honorable to you that it should be preceded by the orders of the president, and more proper in me to wait for those orders than to undertake to guide the public mind, It is now sir that, with the greatest pleasure to myself, I thank you in the name of the President of the United States, for the zeal, perseverance and good conduct manifested by you in the command of the expedition against L'Anguille, and for the humanity observed towards the prisoners --and I do in the same manner thank the officers & privates of the volunteers for their activity and bravery while under your command, and it is the ardent wish and hope of the president that those expeditions, calculated chiefly to procure relief from a savage enemy, and tranquillity to Kentucky, may be followed by their full effect, and shall you and they may enjoy in future, entire peace as a reward for your services.

With very great regard,

I have the honor to be

Sir,

Your most obedient servant.

A. St. CLAIR, Maj. Gen.

Commanding the Troops

of the United States.

General Wilkinson.