[Legion Villes 28 March 1793 / from / Caleb [undecipherable: probable reading Swan] / [undecipherable]] Legion Villes 28 March 1793 I received per the last post your favor of the 16^th Instant enclosing a Schedule of further payment, and an abstract of Bills in [undecipherable], and copy of Charges against him. The arrangement for Brice to pay off [undecipherable] as [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] was deposited in the first instance — It is not [undecipherable] for any man to calculate with certainty on doing [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] nature, unless he has a light boat and crew at his [undecipherable] — and in that case he would hazard the uncertainty finding a county lieutenant at home, after penetrating the [undecipherable], perhaps from 20 to 100 Miles to look for him — the lieutenant of the counties for whom Brice received money, do not live near the [rivers?], neither do the inhabitants of any one county [undecipherable] in the schedule, except [those?] of Mason in Kentucky — the county has a [undecipherable] village of people at a place called Limestone on the Ohio — And Jefferson county in Kentucky had a village at the rapids of the Ohio — I [undecipherable] None of the counties lying along the Ohio have any [undecipherable] or inhabitants within Many [undecipherable] of the river. The following counties [undecipherable] have as far as I can learn, heretofore employed [scouts?] under the authority of the president of the United States. To wit — Allegheny — Westmoreland — Fayette — Monongahela — and Washington in Pennsylvania 5 — Ohio, Harrison [undecipherable] and Kanawha counties in Virginia. 5 — Mason — Bourbon — Fayette — Madison — Mercer — Lincoln — Woodford — [undecipherable] and Jefferson Kentucky 9 [Besides?] these the State of Kentucky has [undecipherable] erected 3 new counties — Total 22 Counties. Within all the before named counties, are [undecipherable] as immediately exposed to the savages, I cannot [undecipherable] — but I know that a large majority of them employ scouts for their protection. The number to be employed for each county had heretofore been limited to 3, at 5/6 of a dollar, per day, and continued in service at the discretion of the [undecipherable] — I am not possessed of much knowledge of the local [undecipherable] of the several counties bordering on the Ohio, from Pittsburg to the rapids — The immense distance, at [undecipherable] may yet be considered as a wilderness, prevents [undecipherable] from acquiring a legal knowledge of their interior, [undecipherable] — unless he were to ride [undecipherable] the land and he [undecipherable] in his [undecipherable] that one generally is, [undecipherable] by water — The fact is however, that the counties lying opposite to the several Great War paths that intersect the Ohio, are always in danger. I shall be glad if the foregoing details may offer you aid in forming your estimate for the pay of this [undecipherable]. There is no better plan for paying the [undecipherable] in Kentucky, than by placing the money in my hands, [undecipherable] I do again [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Washington — But all that are employed from the [Kanawha?] [undecipherable], it will find a greater convenience in drawing their money from Philadelphia than in paying down [undecipherable] from Washington for it. [undecipherable] informed me that he had [undecipherable] returns to you of [undecipherable] every payment he had made [undecipherable] at [Pittsburg?] — and expended [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] 320 dollars for the Bourbon [undecipherable], [undecipherable] must [undecipherable] have taken down with [undecipherable] about 12000 dollars for old [undecipherable] due to the [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] — I had not more than four day's with [undecipherable], and being much fatigued with the whole [undecipherable] incessant travelling, had nothing to do [undecipherable] any thing more than to obtain [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] and make it up, and [undecipherable] it off by him [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] to [undecipherable]. As I dont make any pay ments for dead men you need not hesitate to [undecipherable] such balances [undecipherable] returned to you — And for all the dead of this part of the Army, I will soon [undecipherable] you with such information as you want — But when we go from hence you [undecipherable] expect long intervals between our [undecipherable]. General Wayne thinks a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] for the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] pay [undecipherable] — it is my private opinion that the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] as [undecipherable], for I [undecipherable] [undecipherable]. Please to [undecipherable] me a copy of General [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] dollars which you have [undecipherable] to him as three months pay [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] this he [undecipherable] to be [undecipherable], [undecipherable] he knows, as he apprehends there is some mistake [undecipherable] it. I [undecipherable] you the enclosed [undecipherable] No. [undecipherable] [undecipherable] 14 — amount $1,399.^{[undecipherable]}/100 dollars, with all [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] Rolls [undecipherable] — please to acknowledge the receipt of them particularly, when they come to your hands. Enclosed is [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable], as he has stated he [undecipherable] it has been already [undecipherable]. I am [undecipherable] your obedient Servant [undecipherable: probable reading Caleb Swan] of the [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Howell S. Esq.