[Address panel:] [undecipherable] Hodgdon Esq[r] [undecipherable] [Stamp: Received State Dep't. R.E.O. 40/810] [Endorsement, lower left:] [undecipherable] Barracks No 23 Nov[embe]r 25^th 1791 [undecipherable] [undecipherable: Ft. Hamilton?] 25 Novem[b]^r 1791 Sir, your letter of the 21[st] was handed me last evening by M[r] Dan[undecipherable], who with others [undecipherable] not only this morning, not yet [undecipherable] [at?] The [Sl.att?] [undecipherable] it is [possible?], you reflected that [undecipherable] there [without?] if [the?] [Gl.att?] [undecipherable] is not [Brow'd?] [undecipherable] if the party were here [Monday?] having left the [Canoe?] a [mile?] below. From the narrow situation of this Garrison, you must not calculate on [any?] as an [active?] [force?] here — very [few?] [then?] [undecipherable] exceeded on an [undecipherable] from [Alison?] and right [covered?] by a party of [armed?] Men. This [instantly?] [undecipherable] my [Indians?] partly to a small number. The [undecipherable] have been in small [parties?] very [undecipherable] — [Detached?] twenty Men yesterday, in quest of a small body. If this Morning [undecipherable] thirty [undecipherable] down the River [undecipherable] [show?] a [range?] of them may [undecipherable] [discovered?] [undecipherable] that one not yet [returning?] their [recepting?] [detachment?] — [undecipherable] the [building?] will perhaps oblige me to detain the carpenters a few days after the [undecipherable: Glatt?] is finished. Doors for the [undecipherable: Embrasures?] [undecipherable] must be made, Store Houses for your Corn can be built [undecipherable]. Please to send me an Apartment of [undecipherable: Flints?] — there is not one in the Garrison — am [Covered?] & [undecipherable] Camp Kettles, with a further Supply of writing Paper, [undecipherable] since the 7^th Post. [use?] those [quires?] the Supply you Sent will not last me those [weeks?] — I hope [ere?] this reaches you that a second Attempt is made to [forward?] a Boat, & that with her there may be a proper Escort. The [Corn?] is much wanted & as I [observed?] [before?] the Situation of this Garrison will not admit of my [undecipherable] a Single Man. I will endeavour to [get?] a few bushels [of?] Corn for the [undecipherable] by sending a [light?] Canoe I myself made for it — I am Sir your Ob Serv[an]t 2 Padlocks on Still [undecipherable] [undecipherable] U. S. Window Glass is much wanted the Rooms without it are like cells — indeed too dark to do business in of a cold day