Pittsburgh 3^d January 1798 Sir ) I have received your favour of the 2 8^th ultimo Together with a letter from M^r Hodgson, enclosing five Thousand Dollars in Post Notes — A Detachment Consisting of Eighty one Non Commissioned Officers & Privates (under the Command of Captains Cook & Thompson) arrived here on the thirty first Ultimo, and will embark in a few Days, if the Weather Continues favourable. On the first of this Month I commence Issuing Whiskey to the Troops at this Post, agreeable to directions Contained in the Secretary of the Treasury's letter of the Twenty fifth of June last. the [undecipherable] of that Article at Wheeling, Beaver Block House & Fort Franklin are made in the same manner. The Deputy Master General is arrived, & I believe intends to set off for Philadelphia in a few Days. We have no late accounts from the Army — I am Sir General Knox Secretary of War Philadelphia Your most Obedient Humble Servant Isaac Craig