[Fort? J. Harri...] — [Albany Road?] — [undecipherable date, ca. 1791] Sir I am this moment embarking for [Louisville/Limestone?] — [undecipherable line] [undecipherable line] of being able to accomplish [it?] as I shall continue to receive and have now nearly established — In my arrival here I found [undecipherable] of some consequence who had been detained for my coming by [Major?] [Ziegler?] and by him I have [Tuesday?] sent a [Message?] to My Nation — the Indians on that nearly the whole of one of [Brien?] [George?] (that seemed to be returned) have [joined?] the [Shawnee?], and signed many of the [tobacco?] in [their?] camp — by the same witness that, of they could not go to war [against?] the Americans they will come and cut them off, by him I sent a Message also to the [Pope?] and the Chiefs of the [Delawares?] — There is a surprising calm along the [frontier?] at present, no [signing?] having happened that I had heard of with any certainty, except the [passing?] of a [Militia?] [Company?] opposite to Pittsburgh the day before. I left it and [taking?] [two?] [Horses?] — a Report indeed [reached?] me at Wheeling that a party [consisting?] of eight, had [killed?] [a Loving?] at a [Middle?] Town from [Blue?] Rock and off — [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] the [Chief?] [address?], were [nearly?] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] the [Pope?] [undecipherable]. But was a bold [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] [Militia?] Officers would [command?] to have been [halted?] for [Sheldon?] [Morris?] the most [shameful?] [conduct?] of all. It must have been the most [shameful?] [conduct?] of all. It appears very clear to me this fact, notwithstanding the [many?] [undecipherable] that has been [signed?], the [number?] of [undecipherable] who have [expected?] the [Frontier?] has been [lately?] [attending?] able and I assure, the [present?] calm is made of them — and [direction?] in their [benefit?] — so that they are happening to make an [engagement?] on some [part?] or considerable [force?] — [this?] a [better?] [time?] with [explains?] — In my last I mentioned that I supposed you would not think it [proper?] to continue the [Militia?] that had been [called?] out [after?] the [embarkening?] for — of the [twenty first?] — much beyond the 15^th of May — but being [baffled?] by what I [supposed?] [feel?]. [Such?] maybe be [fully?] in [return?] and that consequently the [danger?] wants to be drawn [from?] the [Frontiers?] — but it has been your [observation?] that they should be [discharged?] it by one, but I by then to observe that both from the [distance?] and the [difficulty?] that attends [approving?] the [River?] it will be I [seem?] [possible?] for one to be [depressed?] of the [broken?] [chance?] which [should?] [groom?] — or to [remove?] the [Indians?] within [much?] of [time?] — I would therefore [suggest?] that you would be [obliged?] to [take?] [for?] [matter?] [upon?] [yourself?] as [far?] as these [Marksmen?] or those [Indians?] for [Marksmen?] I can [look?] all — the [necessity?] of [continuing?] or [discharging?] those and these. The [Opportunity?] to send the [Indians?] [certainly?] by hand. None of the [undecipherable] have made [returns?] to our [group?] for the [bounty?] of this which is [enclosed?] — The [settling?] of the [Plank?] [Party?] at the [Big?] [Bottom?] to the [Muskingum?] [caused?] a very general [alarm?] there the [chief?] of the [attendants?] to the [part?] of the [Territory?], and [Colonel?] [Jones?] [commanded?] [ordered?] to [strengthen?] from — the [Militia?] for his [protection?], the [governor?] and [directing?] being at that — [two?] [posts?] [ahead?]. — I believe [also?] that he was [occupying?] and [trying?] and this [incident?] the [Settlement?] would [have?] then been [either?] [changed?] or [deserted?] — as it [was?] [a?] great [Number?] of their [cattle?] — [some?] [division?] of [undecipherable] and many [killed?] — [He?] is — [with?] those [Return?] of the [Troops?] by his own [orders?] as [which?] [commanding?] [Officers?] of the [Militia?] as they, who [continued?] [commanding?] [officers?] of the [Militia?] as they who [commanded?] until the [arrival?] of [Major?] [Doughty?], also [troops?] [but?] — [but?] there is a [Certificate?] of [several?] [days?] — [Marks?] [Marks?] [Lieutenant?] the [time?] his [order?] [signed?] and that [upon?] [May?] been [actually?] engaged and in [service?] — [undecipherable]. [no?] [had?] to [manage?] there being [continued?] in [necessary?] [having?] [asked?] for a [Revenue?] of the [Militia?] in the [distinction?] in the [settlement?] would be [proper?]. [In?] [Lieutenant?] that he might himself [judge?] of the [number?] that would be [proper?] — [In?] [words?] out [was?] the [order?] made [told?] — as they were however [clearly?] employed and continued a [recommended?] time to [hand?] — they are to make them for the [work?] of their [facility?] — [So?] — [an?] [Colonel?] [troops?] — For [sending?] this the [coin?] [showing?] arrangement may be made for the [consequence?] of [dispatches?] from [Post?] to [Post?], but I [fear?] it is [quite?] be [sufficient?] able on the [present?] [state?] of things. A [near?] [register?] from this [plan?] to [Fort?] Washington at [three?] hundred [Miles?] — [And?] to [P.?] [Township?] [matters?] more than [Three?] [Four?] have [their?] [livery?] — the [garrison?] in it [correct?] [Sheer?] [importance?] of that this [Blacksmiths?] which would be [necessary?], its [Imperial?] the [troops?] at [Fort?] Washington, I [sell?] [are?] the [Detachment?] to their [Imperial?] if three have would be [required?] — [undecipherable] I have [more?] — [undecipherable] there have been a [large?] [manner?] that would be [requisite?] from [Fort?] Washington and to [ensure?] [a?] [weekly?] [communication?] — a has not less than [three?] [Parties?] would [answer?], and the [expiring?] on the [River?] is very [laborious?] but I [made?] both of no [means?] and [little?] [affect?] of [People?], but on the [basis?] and now I have them of it, it [seems?] it would be [more?] [certain?] to [send?] [dispatches?] [overland?] [then?] the [Wilderness?], to be [taken?] at [undecipherable] of [Richmond?] by [Post?] or [telegraph?] as you should [decide?] but I shall be [better?] informed at [Lexington?] and will [tell?] the [Liberty?] to [mention?] [more?] in [from?] there — I have directed [Major?] [Ziegler?] to [repair?] to [Fort?] Washington [on?] the [fourth?] of July and [leave?] a [man?] knowing — [the?] [River?] in a very [general?] [situation?], the [packets?] are very — [much?] [decayed?] and the [pinnacle?] [every?] other and [nearly?] would be — were — engaged to be [turned?] [down?] [shortly?] [falls?] [undecipherable] [Ziegler?] has built a good [block?] [House?] in the [center?] of the [work?] which will [accommodate?] the few [Men?] that will be left [giving?] well, and is much more [defensible?] then the [Fort?] — I therefore [suggested?] to you the [practicality?] of [renaming?] this [instantly?] called — the [block?] [House?] to be [skilled?] [know?] or by these — the [number?] of [undecipherable] — a [day?] on them, and of [undecipherable] [purposes?] as [again?] to be [managed?] by any [Command?] — of them — which from the [Certain?] of the [Matter?], [preserving?] [their?] — the [Bottoms?], provided they can be [escaped?] by the [Embankment?] bed, if it [comes?] to any [certain?] of that [Circumstance?] to [destroy?] their [Likenings?]; as the [block?] [House?] [except?] to be very much [conveyed?] from them. [Signed?] [by?] the [honor?] of [Commissioner?] of the [detachment?] as [Manager?] of [powers?] on the [undecipherable] [day?] of [undecipherable] I have [directed?] [General?] [Butler?] to [relieve?] those by a [little?] [Party?] from the [undecipherable] — [Endorsement panel, largely torn/damaged and illegible]