[Private] Philadelphia 16 March 1790 D Sir In Answer to your Request on the Subject of the Frontier Defence I can explicitly inform you that the Measures taken for this Purpose will be immediate & must take Effect as soon as any State Arrangement can possibly get into Operation. I need not tell you the Inconveniencies attending to the ranging [undecipherable] Levies which will [strikethrough: undecipherable] [undecipherable] the State [strikethrough: undecipherable] [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] others there [undecipherable] Declarations, [to?] promote and to render [such] Interference unnecessary — your [undecipherable] orders upon this subject [Endorsement, rotated:] [- Carphine Mayshard Muller] [To R. Peters 10^th Nov^r 179[undecipherable]] [Bunker · Westmoreland · Washington · Alleganey]