Stock bridge 28^th Bum^r 1791. Sir, I had the honor of addressing you, by a [strikethrough: brief] hasty letter from Norwich in which I [strikethrough: to inform of his intention] expressed my intentions of proceeding with the utmost [strikethrough: directly to Albany] dispatch. No conveyance offering sooner than the [strikethrough: therefore I could not] next day Stage — I thought best to go by white Plains where I had left my own horse on my way down — I reached this place [strikethrough: but arrived] a little before eleven o'clock last night — After riding the whole of Monday night, but found my own about [strikethrough: forty] miles back — at New Barrington, I heard that Cap^t [undecipherable] a gentleman of some in [undecipherable], had lately returned from a tour to the westward as far as Niagara — I was desirous to call upon him in Buffalo, I and as desirous to call upon him — I knows what intelligence he had brought from that quarter — He gave me the following act. That he was at Niagara when the news arrived of the defeat of our Army — In the vicinity of the Niagara — that they received information that the western Confederacy — [strikethrough: a] Letter from Detroit within a few days after this unfortunate action, expressly to days after this unfortunate action expressly to days after his unfortunate action expressly to the accounts given in by the Indians they had killed or taken 1200 of the Americans — their own loss was only 46 — That Cap^t Brant had been for sometime dangerously sick at Grand River — for some weeks his life had been despaired — but returning to M^r Engersoll [undecipherable] I think faster to lucky [undecipherable] here, then was hopeless of his recovery — He also told me that Col. Gordon, the Commandant of Niagara, appeared to be much affected with the news of our Army had sustained — that Brant had endeavoured [strikethrough: of] [strikethrough: supposed] the Indians from preventing the was, to be any left in the vicinity of Niagara — that the western Confederacy were much allied with Brant for refusing to join them, & had nearly threatened him & his whole party — And report said, that Brant had serious thoughts of putting himself under the protection of Congress — M^r Engersoll of Niagara informed me, that the Buffalo Indians expressed great uneasiness at their Situation, not having complied with the last demand from the western Confederacy to join them — & sent forward some of their young men to take an active part — [marginalia, right side, rotated: 28 Bum^r 1791 Stock bridge 28 Bum^r relative to Indians]