Near Philadelphia the 8^th Nov 1793. N^o 133 Sir I have received your letter of the [undecipherable] inst acknowledging to have received the five thousand dollars from M^r Hodgson. The copy of the letter from the Quarter Master General is satisfactory, and more especially as I have not received any information from Major General [Wayne?] his dispatches being I suppose borne by Ensign Morgan, who I learn by the Pittsburg paper has left head Quarters to come by the way of the Wilderness to Philadelphia. I would [undecipherable] me singular satisfaction to be able legally to direct that the [Speces?] families mentioned by you should be furnished with Quarters and fuel at Pittsburg. But there is no law authorising [such?] a measure at Pittsburg more than Philadelphia or Boston, and [undecipherable] judge of the expency comparatively, they would be nearly as great at Pittsburg as the latter places. If however the public have any rooms in Barracks, unoccupied at Pittsburg, the families you allude to may occupy them. And if the said families of officers [do?] not regularly receive the [undecipherable] their husbands [undecipherable] assigned [undecipherable], by the reason of the distance in Pittsburg from Head Quarters, you may also furnish A moderate quantity of [fuel?], [taking?] proper vouchers for the same as I [Charge?] the officer therewith at the price given for it, and transmitting such charges to the Pay^r General, to be deducted from the officers Pay. More than this cannot be done, and more ought not to be asked. It will be proper if any clothing remained to be forwarded by S^t Clair or [undecipherable] Whistler, that I should be furnished with an account of it. I [am?] Your obedient Servant [H Knox?] [Major Craig]