[Endorsement: To Gen'l Wayne / 7 July 1790 / [undecipherable: signature]] New York 7^th July 1790 G. [undecipherable] I thank you for your favour, of the 25^th [undecipherable] December last, with the enclosures — ( my opinion entirely concedes with— appears as to the utility of rifles —— But do you not think your information was Mistaken as to [undecipherable] much [undecipherable] from happening having been written by the [undecipherable]? [strikethrough: undecipherable] [undecipherable] of Georgia, to make the light of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] The [undecipherable] sales of the [undecipherable] not legally [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] therefore must be from known — The United States [undecipherable] [undecipherable] much disposed to [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable], which can be checked or [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] to you for your prayer The Proclamation of 1763 the force of [undecipherable] must be examined I propose the [undecipherable] troops [undecipherable] mentioned to you [undecipherable] be ready [to] come back by the 1^st of March or soon after — and my opinion coincides with yours as to the Stations they [have] [undecipherable] — The President of the United States & Congress [undecipherable] decide as to [undecipherable] The subject of the creek Congress is under the consideration of the Legislature — I cannot venture an opinion of the result — The [sale] of Georgia has [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] excessively — for my own [undecipherable] As [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] of the cause [undecipherable] I must [undecipherable] Therefore I make [no] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] on [undecipherable] M^r [undecipherable] is [with] us I [undecipherable] — The [undecipherable] [hold] [Respect] to you — I am [Dear] Sir ([undecipherable]) [signature: undecipherable] [undecipherable] Gen'l Wayne