[Cedar Hall Novem 17 1793 Bt. [undecipherable] Hays—] Cedar Hall Novem^r 9^th 1793 [Y]ours dated [undecipherable] of October [undecipherable] and con- fide to hand the Contents of which I Shall with pleasure attend to as far as in my Pow- er. the [undecipherable] Troops in this District is at- [undecipherable] with a great deal of Trouble and Fatigue, [undecipherable] are a number of the Companys which are mus[tered] into Service [undecipherable] me to [undecipherable] 100[undecipherable] miles more [undecipherable] the District [undecipherable] to attend at [undecipherable] between out Sides of the District the Settlements [undecipherable] Near Seventy miles Longer, it is not pos[undecipherable] [undecipherable] Militia when called out I come to attend in the Centre of the District [undecipherable] to be marched into an one Service, Since they the Parts of the Country they are Called from, would be Exposed to the [undecipherable] & many I have Sent out by Col [undecipherable] all the master Rolls has come to hand on whose Time 3 [undecipherable] expired they have not [undecipherable] in as good Shifts as I could have wished them but Scribes are Scarce and hope not [undecipherable] — but I flatter my Self when the Blanks com[undecipherable] forward [undecipherable] will be Better done I will thank again [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] to the Rolls [undecipherable] or any other defect be in them to Send me a form to go by I will Try to have them done accordingly — as to publick [undecipherable] there there are none in this District now never was any [Except?] a few [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] or [undecipherable] which [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Service and a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to Militia to raise [undecipherable] for they generally [undecipherable] it — on the 20 of this month there will be [undecipherable] one Troop of Cavalry [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] in the District the People appear to be [undecipherable] more attoned Since his Excellency [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] when [undecipherable] the Troops to be Dismiss[ed] from Service all [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Company, as we know not, what day or night we might be attacked by a Formidabl[e] body of Creek & Cherokee [undecipherable] Troops there was — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] it appears [undecipherable] [undecipherable] are against us [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Subject of on the Sec[retary] of War I [undecipherable] my appointment in March [undecipherable] [undecipherable] done the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Robert Hays