Pittsburgh 25^th May 1792 Sir— M^r Bell & D. [undecipherable] Giv— received here on the 21 Instant & Yesterday set off [for] Fort Washington, I have forwarded in his charge, Fifty two hundred of [undecipherable] Iron one hundred Fifty falling [undecipherable], two Bags [undecipherable] un dismounted howitzde Ammunition Boxes, containing Carriages, Iron Chain, ten [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Musquet Balls, twenty five Musquets and twenty three [undecipherable] that the [undecipherable] immediately the [undecipherable] — Major [undecipherable] was prepared to set off at the same time he is detained until the Return of a detachment, he has just in pursuit of a party of Indians that have [undecipherable] the Allegheny [undecipherable] about [undecipherable] from this place the detachment is Expected to Return this Evening — [undecipherable] hundred [undecipherable] Ammunition [undecipherable] they are now Casting the [undecipherable] and that it must be inspected Received and [undecipherable] for at the furnace before it is taken away — they say that the River is now so low that it must be transported by land, before at least 20 Miles, they — Casting four ton of 6 & two ton, three lb that the [undecipherable] at the furnace will be thirty five [undecipherable] Carriage to Pittsburgh [undecipherable] — Yesterday the [undecipherable] came to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] two men to [undecipherable] old [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] they will cast twenty four [undecipherable] [undecipherable] a [undecipherable] of thirty Capt [undecipherable] has Repeatedly [undecipherable] Note to me for Clothing, those in [undecipherable] his last [undecipherable] his [undecipherable] [undecipherable] then Received [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] Instant together [undecipherable] a Letter which [undecipherable] probably [undecipherable] A Report is [at] the moment made in town of a [undecipherable] party of Major [undecipherable] totally [undecipherable] some being killed [undecipherable] and four of them killed by a party of Indians — [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] the detachment has just Returned & I expect the Whole will Embark tomorrow — [undecipherable] — I am Sir your [undecipherable: Hble Serv^t] [undecipherable] Jno. Craig [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Phil[undecipherable]