Updates on Troops, Missing Officer
Document 1791Unknown location and occupation of officer, others questioned as to his location.
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Fort Washington June 1[undecipherable]
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Sir
I had the [undecipherable] to write for you
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[undecipherable] to pardon me I am [undecipherable]
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[undecipherable] follow to feel that [undecipherable]
Dollars [undecipherable]
Books under the [undecipherable] I think did not [undecipherable]
have [undecipherable] some day few days [undecipherable] it will
be with more difficulty they will get on it will
[undecipherable] if you [undecipherable] have put [undecipherable] in order to [undecipherable]
a Conversation [undecipherable] I [undecipherable] making of him [undecipherable]
he is or what he is doing. This is the [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] several [undecipherable] moved and there—
[undecipherable] from [undecipherable] without
delay, upon which [undecipherable] very [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] thing had gone wrong with him [undecipherable]—
[undecipherable] would have reached [undecipherable]— Small parties of
Indians continue to clear themselves from him—
[undecipherable] near and then late [undecipherable] [undecipherable] but [undecipherable]
with they have [undecipherable] lately. The [contractors?]
have put forward about a thousand Barrels of
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[undecipherable] they [undecipherable] will must [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] have [undecipherable]
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I [undecipherable] I wonder so much
on the hands of [undecipherable] Public
He has been reported by a [undecipherable] man of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
arms drawn with the [undecipherable] Boat of the Contractors there—
[undecipherable] Provisions at P. [undecipherable] — I [undecipherable] [undecipherable] them closely
to say he knew [undecipherable] that he had [undecipherable] him [undecipherable]
many days before he left that [undecipherable] [undecipherable] express [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] — for his [undecipherable] I should [undecipherable] it even as
[undecipherable] he was [undecipherable]
but it [undecipherable] [undecipherable] with that [undecipherable] he not [undecipherable]
Brother [undecipherable] will be me
Colonel Edwards of Bourbon County has [undecipherable]
another volunteer [undecipherable] three hundred [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] the [undecipherable] of Scotts who [undecipherable] the [undecipherable]
who [undecipherable] [undecipherable] men make [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable]
to [undecipherable] but carried for an sum of [undecipherable] us
I [undecipherable] and trust there will be no occasion to [undecipherable] the
Militia I have given my consent to it or [undecipherable]
It is not yet in my Power to [undecipherable] for—
establishing a regular Communication with P[undecipherable] [undecipherable] now
on the [undecipherable] until a reinforcement arrives— the [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] them [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
but I have written to Genl [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] Officers and there [undecipherable] [undecipherable] at [undecipherable] as he [undecipherable]
down, and to add then them room to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] all [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] there will be [undecipherable] different to take
[undecipherable] for— the [undecipherable] and from [undecipherable]
one. Men can take them to Pittsburgh which will
be [undecipherable] [undecipherable] three days [undecipherable]
I have the honor to be
[undecipherable] your very [undecipherable] Servant, and
here many [undecipherable] have that an [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] very [undecipherable]
[undecipherable]
[undecipherable] Mr at Miller H. St Clair
Will you be pleased to [undecipherable] to me the
[undecipherable] of the Contract for the present Year — [undecipherable] at [undecipherable]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Unknown location and occupation of officer, others questioned as to his location.
Date
06/13/1791
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Fort Washington
Collection
Document number
1791061340001
Page start
1
Note
document is largely illegible.
Notable persons
Henry Knox
Arthur St. Clair
Samuel Hodgdon
contractor
Notable locations
Fort Washington
Pittsburgh
Bourbon County

