[Letter from Major Craig, dated July 13. 1^st 92.] [Received from Army Dep't Nov 27 1914 R.E.A. 102310.] [undecipherable: probable reading Pitts.g] 13^th July 1792— [Acco / B.L.S. / Nov / R.E.O. 4028 ft.] Dear Sir I have not been able to [send] By this Post Vouchers for all the Charges against the Ordnance & Storemaster Department During Your Administration but there are with them [undecipherable] Tickells [undecipherable] by which the Hon'ble Officer — I [undecipherable] that it is an Exception that Every Obligation Should be Discharged, exclusive of Your Departure During Your Administration is [undecipherable] You will Please to Observe that the [undecipherable] Dollar also Remittances by Order of Gen'l Knox was not Credited on the Abstract & also the [undecipherable] Knox has Purchased & rec'd several Barrels of Grocerys for which I have Required him to pay, this leaves you with Plenty to Deduct out of the Ballance, I will offer in my [undecipherable] if not [undecipherable] how to Request a further Supply of then Articles also a Side of [undecipherable] Table [Colters] but not of the Most Earthly Kind — I have been so much Engaged these Two Weeks and that it was out of my Power to Complete my Monthly Returns be Pleased to make an Apology to Gen'l Knox for me it is the first time I have Neglected that Part of my Duty. Our Frontiers are all in Peace Reaping a Plentiful Harvest, no one that Tranquility may last is [undecipherable] — It is reported we already feel the good Effects of the Negotiation now on foot — M^rs Craig Resent her Respects to you I am Dear Sir with Great Respect your Obedient Humble Servant Jms Craig Sam^t Hodgdon Esq^r Philad^a N.B. I am Confident that if Gen'l Knox was Fully Acquainted with the many Discomforts with the Anxieties & Fatigues I had to Surmount in Building the New Post he would see [an] Adequate Compensation — The Compensation of Clerks in the [Q. Mast'r Gen'l Office?] [undecipherable] Please to fix on you may think Proper, or indeed [any] of the other Salaries [undecipherable] that Respects my own Compensation [undecipherable] recommend M^r Baugh — Gardener had 6/: per day & Board M^r [undecipherable] D any — Isaac Craig