[undecipherable] [To] The Honourable the Secretary of War Pittsburgh February 1[undecipherable] 179[3] I acknowledge the receipt of yours of the 19^th Ulto enclosing a letter from M^r Belli, dated Lexington December 16^th with [undecipherable] [undecipherable] communications that I have seen, induce me to take the liberty of enclosing you a Copy of my answer to this letter which shall not be continued right whenever it may appear very necessary. I cannot [undecipherable] [undecipherable] on reading a Paragraph from a letter of General Wilkinson's relative to [undecipherable] of the 10^th September [undecipherable] [undecipherable] they have mistaken this order entirely, I could not [undecipherable] on M^r Belli from [undecipherable] letters for any important [undecipherable] distance in carrying this order into effect. I therefore applied to the [undecipherable: Proper] Quarter, and this order will be executed, equal to the most [undecipherable] instructions. Orders respecting the Packhorses were directed to General [undecipherable: McElhinon]. Unfortunately M^r Belli had not the means to [undecipherable: furnish] an 1800 horses, and it would have been [undecipherable: premature]. I should not find it [undecipherable] it never was intended to collect such a number of horses until it should first [undecipherable: appear] certain that we could support & employ them to advantage which depended entirely on the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] as now [undecipherable] that it would have been [undecipherable: necessary]. [undecipherable] that the [undecipherable] intended to carry [undecipherable] very [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in addition to your knowledge of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] for raising 200 Pack horses to trouble you with the [undecipherable] Copy of my [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] October to M^r Belli and then [undecipherable] to you whether these [undecipherable] has very [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] with [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I have made the [undecipherable: greatest] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] would [undecipherable: recommend] to their [undecipherable] in his [undecipherable] of [undecipherable: Pay] [undecipherable] at [undecipherable] where [undecipherable] corresponded to [undecipherable: remedy] to [undecipherable] some [undecipherable] be [undecipherable]. [undecipherable] Abstract of Accounts made on the March [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] General Statement [undecipherable] each Account [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] payment [undecipherable] [undecipherable] is [undecipherable: requested] to [undecipherable: send settled] on the [undecipherable: footing] fixed [undecipherable] in [undecipherable: this map]. [undecipherable: late to] [undecipherable] your knowledge of the expenses at Fort Washington. [undecipherable] estimates of an Additional [undecipherable] number of Boats & other [undecipherable] having [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Officers. They have to [undecipherable: expend] the [undecipherable: Requisites] of [undecipherable: Extraordinary] Services. [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [undecipherable: the] Departments the Accounts of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Bills to [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] $3,000 Dollars and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I am with [undecipherable: the truest] respect Sir your most Ob[undecipherable: edient] Serv[undecipherable: ant] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [Enclosure/s] For the Secretary [of War] Pittsburgh January [undecipherable] 179[3] By this days post, I send yours of the 14^th Ulto received from the Secretary of War. [undecipherable: The greatest] anxiety [undecipherable] have [undecipherable] experienced in [undecipherable] [undecipherable] with the [undecipherable: multiplicity] of your business, [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] however [undecipherable] [undecipherable] find you conclude with so much pleasure and [undecipherable] in doubt that the Department will be [undecipherable: requested] [undecipherable] more to your satisfaction. [undecipherable] wrote you on the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] from [undecipherable: Mister] [undecipherable] Bills by M^r [undecipherable: Rhatt] [undecipherable] by whom I [undecipherable] you have [undecipherable] a [undecipherable: satisfactory] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable]. [undecipherable] Bills of [undecipherable] all that could then be [undecipherable: furnished]. [undecipherable: Now] advise of a [undecipherable: variable] [undecipherable] on his way from [undecipherable: Philadelphia] which shall be forwarded. The remainder of your [undecipherable: remittance] [undecipherable] in N^o December will as soon [as] possible [undecipherable] credit the $1000 which [undecipherable] [undecipherable] kind cannot be [undecipherable: claimed] at present. I have informed you that your draft on the [undecipherable: Secretary] of [undecipherable: War] for [undecipherable] Dollars, [undecipherable: honored] and [undecipherable: that] further Bills to amount to $4,000 Dollars more expected, these two sums amounting exactly [undecipherable] as you [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of the 19^th October, [undecipherable: executed] by the [undecipherable: Secretary] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] required me to [undecipherable: remit] [undecipherable] something now at that time. [undecipherable] send you $[undecipherable] Dollars and [undecipherable] my confidence that the [undecipherable: Treasury] will [undecipherable] more [undecipherable] [undecipherable] arrangement [undecipherable] the establishment can [undecipherable: satisfy]. [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] before the time that your [undecipherable: Postscript] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable: Boldly] has been [undecipherable: impracticably] [undecipherable: anticipated]. [undecipherable] with the [undecipherable: quantity] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] much was delivered to you of that convoy, my [undecipherable: last] letter [undecipherable] lying as [undecipherable: evidence] on your Conduct in Kentucky and yet I am [undecipherable: satisfied] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that you will [undecipherable] abundant supplies in the course of the Month. On hearing of Captain [undecipherable] disaster, M^r William [undecipherable] was dispatched with two [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Boats loaded [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] he navigate the [undecipherable: Streams] [undecipherable] as [undecipherable: at Hamilton] and one [undecipherable] Kentucky boat and another large [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] these [undecipherable: barges] with the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] will [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] you will have [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable: taking] [undecipherable] of $3,000 [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [undecipherable: James] Caldwell of [undecipherable: Columbia] $1,000 [undecipherable] [undecipherable] you must have to [undecipherable] him [undecipherable]^th [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable: Accounts] of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Transfer, including the [undecipherable: troops] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] no objection [undecipherable] I have made an [undecipherable: Attempt] to [undecipherable: transpose] the Department [undecipherable] [undecipherable], especially to the [undecipherable] Regulations [undecipherable] [undecipherable] by [undecipherable: Major] Rudolph and the [undecipherable] master [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] distributed into [undecipherable: Classes] to [undecipherable: Extract] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I [undecipherable] therefore to [undecipherable: arrangements] to [undecipherable] if [undecipherable] had [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] has sufficiently [undecipherable] to be [undecipherable] in the [undecipherable: first furnishing] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable: West] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] you have [undecipherable] before [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] on [undecipherable] of the 1^st of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]. That [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that [undecipherable: Kennan's] [undecipherable: band] to [undecipherable: their] territory, and [undecipherable: consequently] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] them [undecipherable] to be [undecipherable: regularly] defeated [undecipherable] [undecipherable: on our own] side. [undecipherable] in the [undecipherable: meantime] [undecipherable: report] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] you [undecipherable] [undecipherable: simplest] [undecipherable] out [undecipherable]. [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable: the] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that you [undecipherable: Address] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of the settlement [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] together & [undecipherable] the accounts at the [undecipherable: expiration] of every quarter [undecipherable] for the current regulations of both [undecipherable] Departments. [undecipherable] would [undecipherable] be very particular in [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] matters as [undecipherable: Officers] wanted, in your own Detachment. Judicious & [undecipherable] [undecipherable] application is [undecipherable: right that] we understand both. [undecipherable] best [undecipherable: in adopting] their [undecipherable: measures] as [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] as [undecipherable] commendable. [undecipherable: The] best method that can be adopted is in my Opinion [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] with [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] we have not [undecipherable: sufficient] to [undecipherable: furnish] [undecipherable: Pittston] [undecipherable] Garrison [undecipherable] not & [undecipherable: Macanodis] sufficient to justify the [undecipherable: appointing] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] [undecipherable: Adjustment] or [undecipherable: Advance] of the [undecipherable: Commissary's] things. [undecipherable] their being [undecipherable: Accountable], it is not [undecipherable] the [undecipherable: precepts] on which we can [undecipherable] for my Claims that [undecipherable] may be [undecipherable: established] [undecipherable] such as [undecipherable: appear] [undecipherable: necessary] upon [undecipherable: Extraordinary] The Officers of the out Posts [undecipherable: perfectly] informed of their regulations and will certainly admit of their Measures. I am very glad to find that General [undecipherable: Wilkinson] has not paid [undecipherable: Attention] to [undecipherable: Fort] [undecipherable: Faulkner?], as it has not been possible to [undecipherable: procure] any considerable number in this County, being the meat unfurnished [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for some [undecipherable: time]. The [undecipherable: Muscular?] [undecipherable: part?] [undecipherable: on our transportation] ought to be and I hope will be done with this herd of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] last few months by Kentucky Boats. I wish to hear from you soon as possible. [undecipherable: Pay] [undecipherable] let me know all that you want [undecipherable] M^r [undecipherable: Burnet?] [undecipherable: has been found] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and sent with the other Articles agreeable to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] by [undecipherable: Waling?] I am Sir Your [undecipherable] James O'Hara Q.M.G. [To] [undecipherable: John Butler?] D.2.M^r [undecipherable] Head Quarters, Pittsburgh October 1^st 1792 Sir, Your dispatches by Copeland are this moment come to hand with yours of the 31^st and 27^th September. Your information respecting the Horses and Oats is very satisfactory, but I am [undecipherable: sorry] to find your prospects of procuring forage is unfavorable, & the quantity required is greater than you had contemplated. — The Commander in Chief has actually ordered fifty thousand bushels to be purchased in addition to the first. [undecipherable] twenty five thousand [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] of [undecipherable] will have [undecipherable] at [undecipherable: Fort Jefferson] soon as possible. General Wilkinson will receive letters on the subject, all his orders relative to the Quarter Master Department must be religiously complied with. I expect to furnish thirty thousand bushels from this Country. Oats at ¼ Dollar and Corn [undecipherable] of a Dollar and [undecipherable], wish you could procure fifteen or twenty thousand bushels from [undecipherable: Ash]buck. By Major Rudolph you will receive a supply of [undecipherable] and ten thousand Dollars cash. The [undecipherable: boys?] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] as they come from the bank. You may expect a larger [undecipherable] in a short time. I do not expect to have the pleasure of seeing you this winter. You will therefore make such alterations as you may think proper in the Department. Enclosed you have a copy of our Regulations which you will please to observe. I am Sir your Humble Serv[an]t James O'Hara D.M.G.