[Page 1 of this file consists of a notice card: "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."] N^o 29 Pittsburgh 11^th Nov^r 1792 Sir Sir, I [undecipherable] myself [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] proof of the inferior [undecipherable] System of the [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] received, from — [undecipherable] I was first Reed — [undecipherable] some confidential [undecipherable] that [undecipherable] information [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] continue to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] reason [undecipherable] forming this [ideas?] was from [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] a [undecipherable] Mr Hammond in a letter [undecipherable] [undecipherable] among — [undecipherable] sent our —, from the Stores were immediately [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I beg you to [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] of the river — [undecipherable] I & others [undecipherable] — was soon on his way to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] your [undecipherable] [undecipherable] having — [undecipherable] and, allow not [undecipherable] [undecipherable] important [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] men who [undecipherable] between [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] landing — [undecipherable] me to be placed when that [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — we were few Posts on the [undecipherable] — on Detroit only [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — immediately to [undecipherable], [undecipherable] in no [undecipherable] as to the [undecipherable] and to the last of the Hostile Indians at the [undecipherable] of the Militia of Michigan & all [undecipherable] — But that not of this Question, [undecipherable] have [undecipherable] most desirable for [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in a [undecipherable] carry little [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] Washington, [undecipherable] the air [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable: advanced?] advantage of time & circumstances, to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] head of the line & [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] Pittsburgh in case of a [undecipherable] be under it a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] is [undecipherable] the floor [undecipherable] [undecipherable] give [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] any [undecipherable] if the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] mode of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — In [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] mentioned on the bank of the [undecipherable] river, [undecipherable] [undecipherable] creek on the [undecipherable] right [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] harbour for our boats [undecipherable] ordinary [undecipherable] provided we have [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] respect [undecipherable] is [undecipherable] the only spot in [undecipherable] for boats, and [undecipherable] be [undecipherable] from invisible enemies [undecipherable] shall [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the distance — [undecipherable] Pittsburgh is that — [undecipherable] not [undecipherable] [undecipherable] be [undecipherable] at Pittsburgh is — its Vicinity, [undecipherable] an [undecipherable] was [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] at this place, the construction of the Kentucky boats — being only calculated for the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] the river [undecipherable] the same reason they are [undecipherable] [undecipherable] after landing [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — More of the Army and [undecipherable] what [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] Fort [undecipherable: Steuben?] to [undecipherable] this [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the first [undecipherable: attempt?] that has been made, to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] above [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] Steuben [undecipherable], in order to [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] him the [undecipherable] effect, but with a good deal of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] them, [undecipherable] this [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] along [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to descend the Ohio at an early period in the Spring, by [undecipherable] as at [undecipherable] in the [undecipherable] will be [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable: disappointment?] [undecipherable] the necessity of having the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] General of [undecipherable: this Service?] in order to [undecipherable] the accounts of the [undecipherable], he has not yet been ordered in, but it shall [undecipherable] [undecipherable] be done in the interim there cannot be much difficulty in [undecipherable] an estimate of the sum of money immediately — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the books up to the last of this month, and four months all the [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] Roll, up to the last of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] together with the [undecipherable] knowledge of the number of books [undecipherable] will [undecipherable] [undecipherable] smaller, I will not let it at all [undecipherable] and it ought to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] will [undecipherable] descriptions of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that [undecipherable] [undecipherable] pay you [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] that the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for — if one more [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that have taken place in the [undecipherable], as it [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that the [undecipherable] will fill the Vacancies very shortly who Lieu^t [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the 21 of [undecipherable] Ensign [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the 6^th Oct Cap^t Bullard [undecipherable] [undecipherable] by the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] Court [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — he [undecipherable] that [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] deprives him of [undecipherable], [undecipherable] he may return to the Command of this Company, he that [undecipherable] may, [undecipherable] the best [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] that [undecipherable] had [undecipherable] [undecipherable] he [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] they want, only to let them [undecipherable] easy; he has [undecipherable] them [undecipherable] a very good [undecipherable] [undecipherable] he will [undecipherable] [undecipherable]