[Private] The Honourable Major General Knox Philadelphia --- [XXX-80] Fort Washington July the 6^th 1792 My Dear Sir I received your Letter of the 2^d Ulto. respecting Post Notes yesterday by M^r Swan and agree in [undecipherable] and all other Instances with those rules alluded to in your Requests — Some found the Notes were negotiated at Pittsburg which will account for a small deviation from your Instructions. In your letter my Dear Sir by the Conveyance to the bearer, and which was signed by Major [undecipherable] I assume the President of the United [undecipherable] intimated that the Office of Adjutant General to the Army may be dispensed with, as the [undecipherable] of the Campaign and the duties be best served by the Inspector — thereby virtually continuing the Office, And by Implication affixing [undecipherable] Dignity to myself & I was [undecipherable] Discharge of the Duties of the [undecipherable] the public [undecipherable] Interests [undecipherable] my well [undecipherable] but knowing that I have [undecipherable] ly endeavoured to deserve better, [undecipherable] myself that it would not [undecipherable] [tation] of any other man until I had enjoyed the grateful Right of resigning [undecipherable] which I most certainly should have done at the termination of active Service — Pecuniary considerations were not my Inducement to the Campaign and did not believe that the Provisions [undecipherable] should there ever be any [undecipherable] would exceed what I might deem [undecipherable] to equip myself for it — I ought to merit well of Government only and to render those Services which I imagined from my Relation to, and [undecipherable] of the commanding [undecipherable] I might be better capacitated for [undecipherable] than any other Character who [undecipherable] be [employed] upon the [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] as a [public officer?] I [undecipherable] prefer to be [undecipherable] ed by the Plaudits of Authority rather than the dependence of Fortune — you will I trust pardon my Dear Sir those Effusions of a mind very sensible of [undecipherable] upon this Occasion & I believe me with every Sentiment of Esteem and Respect your most obedient Humble Servant Winthrop Sargent