[undecipherable] Dear Sir: N° 24. Fort Washington 13 Apr 1791 By M. Cardiman [undecipherable], I have an Opportunity to address you, the unexpected as the moment of writing — we arrived here on Saturday, three weeks after we left you, having [undecipherable] an agreeable passage without the [undecipherable] of the amount of a straw — I found the trees in the shower on the way which we took — Newman arrived in three days after us, she having had not yet 30 days passage — On unboxing the Books we found the Notes did not agree with the invoice, some [undecipherable] shells, others [undecipherable] short — [undecipherable] hereafter — I wish you to receive and send the enclosed Letter to my Wife, unless come to some [undecipherable] the first Post that leaves your place, after its arrival — Our Indian Chiefs [undecipherable] to some of the Prisoners in the garrison arrived to day — they have met the General, have [undecipherable] the Hope of Peace and permitted to be with their Wives — they are all Kickapoos — We have advanced twenty [undecipherable] Miles to a [undecipherable] on the Big Miami — and the whole Army moves to [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] to complete a farther advance — the [undecipherable] Miami is the object, for a strong Post — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] before a Court of Enquiry, comes on the day to morrow — he [undecipherable] be the results [undecipherable] and sets off for Pittsburgh on his way to Phila[delphia] — as soon as the Court [undecipherable] is known — [undecipherable] to him — before he arrived General [undecipherable] one [undecipherable] [undecipherable] hundred horses to be purchased on the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] account — they are got, and will average at 21 Dollars — [undecipherable] here demand, half a [undecipherable] per day — the horses are lost as fast as [undecipherable] the events, [undecipherable] not be [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] my best respects to M^r. [undecipherable] — to General [undecipherable] and family and all friends, and pardon the [undecipherable] from my situation — a [undecipherable] Affectionately yours James D. Wilkinson Brig^r [Your Audley Duffins [undecipherable] march for this [undecipherable] the is [undecipherable] noted — that damned rascal Stevens ought to be capitally punished —] [undecipherable: Angor Emig]