[undecipherable] I have just Received your letter of the [undecipherable] with the Enclosures. — the Infectious disease is [undecipherable] to be [undecipherable] truly Alarming. I Shall attend to your Instructions particularly Respecting the [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] the Clothing & [undecipherable] up an Idea of Ascertaining the Contents of the packages [undecipherable]. On the 5 Instant a [undecipherable] Interpreter Arrived Express from the Commissionaries with a letter to me enclosing two letters D^d N^o 1 and 2 / to General Wayne with directions to Send one forward Immediately by Express and the other in a few days after, I Sent off N^o 1 same day, and N^o 2 is never gone forward — Since Receiving the Above the Commissionaries have [undecipherable] to Gen Wayne two other letters N^o 3 & [undecipherable] enclosed in one to me, said to be of the Same Import, which I am directed to forward Separately in the Same Manner as the former. The Commissionaries Inform [undecipherable] Returning home, the Indians have [undecipherable] to make peace, [undecipherable] doubt have particular Information from the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] left here to Escort the Stores Says it is incompatible with his Instructions to detach any part of his Command as an Escort for the Boats I am now Sending forward, as he is to Escort the last of the Stores, I am therefore Under a Necessity of hiring an additional Number of Boatmen, which will greatly increase the Charges on Transportation. — I Shall enclose Invoices of the Cargo by Cole Sergeant, who is now here on his way to the Eastward — I am Sir Your Most Obed^t Hum^ble Serv^t Major General Henry Knox Isaac Craig — Secretary of War Philadelphia