[Copy] Fort Washington N^o 30 Nov^r 4^th Dec^r 1. 14 [1792?] Sir/ I had the honor to write you on the 1^st Ins^t & also last Evening by D^r Hammill after when I send this letter express, to advise you — That I have a few minutes since rec^d Information from the Southern who I have been obliged to leave in Command a Fort Hamilton — That the Enemy about two Hours before Sunset yesterday, had made three men prisoners from a covering party within 400 yards of the Garrison — The In immediately detached a reconnoitering party of thirty men under M^r Gaines, who soon made such discoveries of the Enemy's force, as obliged him to decline a pursuit, and the a few moments after M^r Gaines return the Enemy discharged twenty one Rifle Shots, in different directions around the Garrison or with in one milage it — Why I have been obliged to leave Fort Hamilton under the Command of a subaltern — my letters to the Commander in Chief of which I transmitted you Copies, on the 1^st Inst will fully explain — I will however resume the Command in person To morrow & in the mean time, as I calculate that Major Bairs with the Kentucky volunteers and the convoy of pack Horses, will be on the march from Fort Jefferson To morrow — I have despatched Serj^t Brick to bear this memorandum, of which the enclosed is a Copy, but Hardshom before day light — M^r Gaines will be directed to meet me on the path which I made — [undecipherable] in Inquietta last season, for a m [undecipherable] e consist of ten men only, I dare not in prudence move upon the main Road — at this moment I feel the difficulty of my situation very sensibly — and have the Honor to be with the utmost respect and Esteem Sir/ Your mo^st obed^t H^ble Servant W. McKinney O^rG Z [To General Knox]