[Illegible Text — Some or all of the pages of this file are wholly or in part illegible. We have not been able either to locate a better copy of the document, or to enhance its legibility electronically] [undecipherable] Creek, 18^th Oct 1797 My Sir Knox — Previous to G^t [undecipherable: Harmon's] leaving [undecipherable] in June last, he was pleased to direct that in future should any thing very particular [undecipherable] at this Post which appeared of immediate Consequence, or he should be at so great a distance it would be necessary to make the Report directly to the [undecipherable] the Secretary of War — [undecipherable] and that [undecipherable] [undecipherable: sufficient] moment to authorize [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] day the following [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] communicated to me by a [undecipherable: gentleman] directing — he says that the 18^th of last the [undecipherable: Colonel] [undecipherable] had [undecipherable] the Post the [undecipherable] tribe of having distributed [undecipherable] in Cash & [undecipherable: Stores] in [undecipherable: Presents] — that about [undecipherable] had left [undecipherable: Niagara] for [undecipherable: Detroit] with a quantity of Arms & Ammunition, that a Number of Warriors of the [undecipherable: Mohawk], [undecipherable: Onondaga], [undecipherable: Missisauga], and [undecipherable: few] of the [undecipherable: Seneca] [undecipherable: Tribes] with [undecipherable: some] old People [undecipherable] had been with him in the later [undecipherable] with him & that [undecipherable: certain] [undecipherable: Indian] of [undecipherable: various] [undecipherable: Tribes] after him — that [undecipherable: Hunt] said he was going to hold [undecipherable] with the [undecipherable: Wyandottes], but however to his departure [undecipherable] this [undecipherable: War Song] in which he was joined [undecipherable] [undecipherable: Indian] Warriors — about 11 Days [undecipherable: since] the same party [undecipherable] that they said they were going to kindle a great fire near [undecipherable: Walling] & intended to call all the [undecipherable: Indian] [undecipherable] — but it is added there is a great doubt but they intend to [undecipherable: reject] the [undecipherable] Warriors [undecipherable] — that [undecipherable] to say of these [undecipherable] People [undecipherable] — I'll give them enough of it as in Confirmation of [undecipherable] — a very trusty [undecipherable: Indian] [undecipherable: firm] [undecipherable: Informer] [undecipherable] at the Allegany says he was a Brother of the [undecipherable: Grocklund] who was in the Late Council, he reports that Col [undecipherable: Butler] make [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] first [undecipherable] a few [undecipherable] already [undecipherable] & [undecipherable: Niagara] — had they [undecipherable: men] [undecipherable] to take up the [undecipherable: British] [undecipherable] then further said [undecipherable] which could be from the [undecipherable: Indian] — further said [undecipherable] not let his tribe receive the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] from [undecipherable: Ammunition] — the [undecipherable: Colonel] [undecipherable] at this Post in a few days when I [undecipherable] [undecipherable] any particular respecting [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] with him — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of my [undecipherable] as [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Sincerely that [undecipherable] [undecipherable] as well as he [undecipherable] [undecipherable] as a tribe [undecipherable] to take [undecipherable] [undecipherable] mentioned one of their [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to be first offered [undecipherable: Buller Clark] [undecipherable: Lieutenant Colonel] [undecipherable: Wells]