[Copy of a Letter] [Le[undecipherable] Barr March [undecipherable]] [John Miller &c.] [Postal stamp: March 8] Marietta, March 4 & 6^th 1791 Sir I am much obliged to you for your letter of the 27^th of January last— Soon after the appear=ance at this place [strikethrough: of the] General Wyandot & Delawares men & women came in to trade at the place, we treated them with a little more caution. but in the same friendly way as heretofore [strikethrough: &] [undecipherable interlined text] and none of them [undecipherable] had seen the party who did the mischief, except one who said he met the party going in to Kentucky that they consisted of about thirty & some [undecipherable: Shawney] [undecipherable: Mingoes] & had to [undecipherable] — [undecipherable: eight] days after the [undecipherable: these] people [undecipherable: left] as a Soldier was taken with in a few rods of Fort Harmar — but had the good fortune to make his escape The [undecipherable] of [undecipherable: Feby] — and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to get in to Belpre the following [undecipherable: night] [strikethrough: they] visited a number of private houses in the neighbourhood and within a day or two [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable: probably] a party about ten days ago one man was killed and [undecipherable: another] taken on the Virginia side about [undecipherable: 60] mile down the Ohio all the Indians who have been in to trade tell us that there was a great many Indians going to war and that in a Short time we might expect a large body of them to attack this place. but they would not own that the Wyandots and Delawares had taken up the Hatchet, however the truth is now apparent [marginal numbers in left margin] On Saturday last a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] came to this place with [undecipherable: Col] Harmon, and a very [undecipherable] [undecipherable] he went into the Indian Country, last fall, to within a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable: named] [undecipherable] or Burnett as he calls himself[;] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable: a person] who had it seems been an Deserter in England or Scotland[;] the Substance of [undecipherable: which] amounts to this, that he found there to be a general Preparation that he had been using every means in his power to [undecipherable: excite] the [undecipherable: Indian Nations] about Sandusky and the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable: are] now [undecipherable: got appointed] for [undecipherable: the] same purpose that a number of Small partys were gone out already that [undecipherable: a] [undecipherable: great] many Indian Warriors from different [undecipherable: tribes were collecting] at Sandusky, that the Wyandots & Delawares [undecipherable: had] [undecipherable: joined] [undecipherable: their] [undecipherable: forces] Indians and that as soon as the water [undecipherable: falls] and Grass [undecipherable: grew] for their horses they would go against [undecipherable: the] [undecipherable: settlements] with three thousand men. that in order to [undecipherable: save] his life and [undecipherable: facilitate] his escape he [undecipherable: feigned] a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable: the] place [undecipherable] [undecipherable] days before he came in to [undecipherable: our] post [undecipherable] [undecipherable] came [undecipherable: horses] left to take care of their [undecipherable: dogs] [undecipherable] [and] [undecipherable: the] [undecipherable: very] [undecipherable: next] [undecipherable: day] he made a raft and came down the [undecipherable: river] [undecipherable] — by this fortunate escape, of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I think all uncertainty with respect the intentions of the Wyandots & Delawares as well as the General [undecipherable: views] of the Savages is removed — our Inhabitants are [undecipherable: in] nearly all [undecipherable: the] Forts [undecipherable: in] which State [undecipherable: we] [undecipherable: expect] to remain till [undecipherable: destroyed] by the Enemy which God forbid [undecipherable: it] should be the case [undecipherable: or] [undecipherable: relieved] by [undecipherable: the] Government which [undecipherable: I] pray God may be as soon as possible