[Address:] M^r William Knox / [undecipherable] Street / Philadelphia [Notation:] forwarded by / Major Gen[eral] [undecipherable] [Endorsement, inner wrapper:] [undecipherable] / at [undecipherable] / Sept. 18. 1792 [Archival stamp: Received from / State Dep^t. / [undecipherable] D. [undecipherable] / R.P.O. 301310] Sir — Fort Washington Oct. [undecipherable]^th 1791 [Frayer?] returns — a melancholy proof, of the frailty of human nature, I have kept him, until it became irresistible to have him [undecipherable] more [undecipherable] — he has been drunk for weeks together, and at last [peace?] [undecipherable] John [undecipherable] most heartily. I [persuaded] him to come on — I [undecipherable] him from [the] garrison in a [undecipherable] that goes from hence to Philadelphia with [Dispatches] — and I have [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to put him into some returning wagon to get him to Philadelphia — I have made no [undecipherable] with him not knowing what advances you may have made to his Wife — the Pay of a Conductor of Military, the capacity he was in, is placed at Eighteen Dollars per month and two rations per day — but what allowance I shall make to [Boy?] I am not determined — if strict justice took place he would have to pay for his provision — but more of this hereafter — I am very well and under circumstances in a wild country being very well — many articles are deficient — and many wanting — but I am full of invention, and shall [undecipherable] make out — Your most Ob[edient] Servant Samuel [undecipherable] M^r William Knox