[Illegible Text — Some or all of the pages of this file are wholly or in part illegible. We have not been able either to locate a better copy of the document, or to enhance its legibility electronically.] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [Endorsement:] 3^d Octo 1792 / Gen [undecipherable] / N^o 29 [undecipherable] Pittsburgh 3^d Oct 1792 Sir I have the honor to acknowledge your [undecipherable] of the M^r [undecipherable] with the enclosures & will pay due attention to those matters you have recommended. That which respects [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] possible form of the [undecipherable] enemy [undecipherable], have [undecipherable] [undecipherable] it a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] been [undecipherable] [undecipherable] every [undecipherable] obligation [undecipherable] many weeks since [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] [undecipherable] continues to [undecipherable] those attempts, by every means in my power, so as to return it to as great a certainty as circumstances will possibly admit of, [strikethrough: and] a conviction of the [undecipherable] as well as the necessity of the measure. Enclosed is the Monthly return for Sep^t [undecipherable] Detatchments belonging to the Legion & Sub Legions of the [undecipherable] together with the Copy of Col [undecipherable] report of the death of [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable], which appears to be of [undecipherable] composition, but they will search for them [undecipherable] as I have directed and charged [undecipherable] to Philadelphia by a [undecipherable] Waggon, we have discovered some other defects, [undecipherable] in numbers [undecipherable] without [undecipherable] appears no difficulty. I order we shall now be able to [undecipherable] with the [undecipherable] & inspection of the troops — but we will be [undecipherable] the Receipts of discharging many of the men who [undecipherable] were — [undecipherable] never will be fit for service, they are at present a nuisance to the Legion & an expense to the Publick. The following vacancies have taken place in the Legion [undecipherable]: Lieut W^m Davidson of N^o 1 [undecipherable] & 1^st Sub Legion on the 18^th Inst; Lieut [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Sub Legion of [undecipherable] on the 29^th of the same month; Ensign John [undecipherable] of the 1^st Sub Legion on the [undecipherable] Inst — have [undecipherable] [undecipherable] any [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] Captain John [undecipherable] of 2^d Troop of Dragoons of the 2^d Sub Legion, enclosed are copies of his letter [undecipherable] Answer on the Subject. There are two Other [undecipherable] [undecipherable] probably will be compelled to leave the Service, [undecipherable] by Major [undecipherable] — The [undecipherable] [undecipherable] charges of every criminal [undecipherable] have [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — Neither Davidson, Cochran or Roane, have [undecipherable] [undecipherable] or means to [undecipherable] them selves — also Colonel [undecipherable]