[the kind General Knox] [seal] [Virginia [undecipherable]] Sir I beg leave to enclose to you anoth[er] letter received from the L^t. Govern[or] of Virginia & request you will be as good as to direct the execution of that part of [it] which concerns the payment of the specifed demands and to inform me on the subject of the Indian war so far as may be necessary to enable the Executive of Virg^a. to determine on the propriety of calling into service the companys of Rangers heretofore ordered into service on the 1^st of March. 13^th [undecipherable] 03 I have the honor Philad^a to be sir yours [undecipherable]