[address: [undecipherable]] [endorsement: [undecipherable] / [Respecting?] the Arrival of / [undecipherable] / Col[.] [Samuel?] Hodgdon / [undecipherable] / Col[.] [Commanding?]] Dear Sir/ Camp, 29^th Jan^y 1791 — We are good and in order to march tomorrow morning. Yesterday 78 load of flour & 160 head of Cattle Iss and whittle Stock when we are to Recieve more I believe principally depends on your Exertions — Every thing is in [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for the Officers of the [undecipherable] not in good humour, they think them not well treated & [undecipherable] but are Determined to [undecipherable] the back as they have been, the cavalry draw a part who are unable who are Returning. Yesterday the [undecipherable] came killed one of Capt. N. Butts men, & wounded one other who died this Evening & they have either killed or taken one Militia man a few days since — this is all the news Except that our Indians have gone out to day with Captⁿ Sparks & four other men of this morning the Road parties Set out— I beg of you to send me one keg of my whiskey & [undecipherable] & the other [undecipherable], and [undecipherable] & have their Compliments to you, I am just getting able to [undecipherable] otherwise in [the?] tolerable health — The old [undecipherable] or rather my better [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] Sir yours [undecipherable] [Lt.?] Hodgdon B. Butts —