Cincinnati July 4^th 1792 To the Secretary of War I have been intimately acquainted with this District since November 1783 I am well with both parties, people & Hostile Indians, have always been their Applaiser, that my intercourse with all these Country have been from constant & injuries committed by them — that the depredations of robing, stealing and plundering carried on by them renders it difficult and almost impossible to demonstrate what losses are the Settlers that from my first visit to this District which was the time above mentioned, I am confident that above 1500 souls have been killed & taken at different periods up to 1791 — that upwards of 20000 Horses have been taken and carried off — and other property such as many Hundreds of Horned Cattle — and many apparent settlements and of out destroyed by these Indians to a low State — It is next to impossible to make any of these injuries which continues to be depreciated upon and yet there is no force sufficient to meet the claims of your Frontier, or of a power to give it proper protection by the