Looking at both pages now. This is a challenging 18th-century hand — let me carefully work through the document. [Col^o Hamtramck] Dec^r 19^th 1790 Sir By Col^o William [undecipherable] forwarded here from [undecipherable] with the [undecipherable] of a report of the State of the [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] for his able [undecipherable] at a [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] representations of the Post [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in the Country [undecipherable] [undecipherable] employed with the conduct of the [undecipherable] Indians of all nations and they [undecipherable] they have [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] the troops of the United States [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] lately we had [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] when [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in particularly [undecipherable] that the [undecipherable] is a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] who [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] is [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] acceptable [undecipherable] part of the 2^d [undecipherable: probable reading Reg.t] [undecipherable] an information [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] have found their way into the [undecipherable: probable reading Canadian territory] and arrived at the [undecipherable] settlements of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] raised up a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to make for the [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] and yesterday [undecipherable] the enclosed [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] came to confirm the general intelligence of it much [undecipherable] to be [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable: probable reading Blount] himself had [undecipherable] an opportunity to bring [undecipherable] particular [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in the amount of the present [undecipherable] of affairs by our last Post [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that war [undecipherable] certain [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] and that [undecipherable] Floridas and the Mississippi are to be [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] & I am collecting [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] and their destination [undecipherable] Detroit — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the Flag of that garrison was struck in [undecipherable] and being [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the most of the world the Fort will have to be [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in such a [undecipherable: probable reading disagreeable] [undecipherable] not to be [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the Alliances of the Lake [undecipherable] that [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] The [undecipherable] is corroborated by a number of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] near the Lake, and had [undecipherable] [undecipherable] at the Country [undecipherable] their Forts [undecipherable] are [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Moreover a [undecipherable: probable reading reasonable] sufficiency of [undecipherable] for only this [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] any [undecipherable] not high but what is directed to war or [undecipherable] lost [undecipherable] [undecipherable] 17— 1790 [To [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Sec^y War] [endorsement block with administrative notations, partially illegible] [bottom notation: [undecipherable] in your absence [undecipherable] as [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]] --- I should be transparent: this document is extremely challenging. The handwriting is compact, flowing, and difficult to distinguish in many places, and the image quality compounds the difficulty. A significant portion of the text is illegible to me. This appears to be a letter from Colonel Hamtramck (likely at Post Vincennes/Fort Knox) to the Secretary of War, dated December 19, 1790, reporting on Indian affairs, intelligence about European powers (Spain/France) regarding the Floridas and Mississippi, and the status of British garrisons near the Great Lakes (including Detroit). A transcription by someone with access to the original document and familiarity with Hamtramck's specific hand would likely yield a much more complete reading.