Annapolis, 26 April 1784
Sir
I have the Satisfaction to inform you that Congress have appointed you a Commissioner to treat with the Indians, and that it is their Wish you should attend at New York as soon as possible to determine with the other Commissioners on the Times & Places for holding the Treaties.1 The Commission authorizing you to act on this Business will be transmitted to New York under Cover to Mr Oliver Woolcot.
I have the Honor to be with great Respect & Esteem, Sir Your Obed humble Serv
Thomas Mifflin
Receiver's copy, bMS Am1649.4, Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Letter book, Papers of Continental Congress, item 16, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C. Addressed: "Major General Lincoln." Endorsed: "A similar letter was written to the Honble. Arthur Lee Esqr."
1 For the April 24 election of Lee and Lincoln as commissioners "in the room of Mr. S[tephen] Higginson and Mr. N[athanael] Greene, who have declined that office," see JCC, 26:282. See also Mifflin to the Indian Commissioners, March 6 and 22, 1784.