[Endorsed: Nov [undecipherable] 179[undecipherable] / [undecipherable] Picke[ring] / [in]forming of Cap[t] / [re]moval from [undecipherable] / [de]ath] [In [undecipherable]] [FREE] Dear Sir Philadelphia Nov. 8^th 1793 Lately M^r. [undecipherable] wrote me that Cap^t. Ford was displeased at the publication of his information relative to the affairs of the treaty, with his name, on account of the trouble it might occasion him on his return to Canada. I am now [undecipherable] to inform you that he has [undecipherable] last. A letter from Cap^t. [undecipherable] just rec^d, announces his death, which happen^d last [undecipherable] at New York, occasion^d by a piece of meat which [undecipherable] in his throat at dinner. I saw the President [undecipherable]. They had no [undecipherable] intelligence from Gen^l. [undecipherable]. Some letter[s] published in the news papers [undecipherable] that the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] were [undecipherable] in number, but in the same papers gave an [undecipherable] that that Gen^l. Wayne had actually marched. As late as the 26^th of September he dates a letter at [undecipherable: probable reading "Hobson's"] Choice, which Gen^l. [undecipherable] tells me is near Fort Washington. Our city is happily nearly clear of [undecipherable] affectionate[ly] yours [undecipherable] [Gen^l. Lincoln]