(49) Marietta May 1790 Sir I do not exagerate the intercourse of the [undecipherable] they proposing peace finds in the hostile officious of [undecipherable] my only hope — Congress are unequal able to be establish they are too hostile, is not justifiable [undecipherable] to your Excelency — Only the Demands of the [undecipherable] let [undecipherable] gave you to judge of the means of the peace deposited, embraced must for [undecipherable] further Settlers purposes — The opinion for explaination that the the opinion about the [undecipherable] is not entered from the fact you know Whatever to [undecipherable] among those [undecipherable] at present with popular [undecipherable] the troops of the Indian Country but [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] at the hostile design of chasing & hunting down after being killed [undecipherable] depredations as become intolerable. These insults are an outrage upon the [undecipherable] of America only, but to [undecipherable] which I [undecipherable] with most [undecipherable] manner [undecipherable] this Honourable explaination that there is my reason to expect, but from your own personal knowledge of the [undecipherable] you have for those of your