[To Major Gen Knox, Sec^y of war] N^o 69. Head Quarters Greeneville 8. Jan^y 1794. Sir. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your several letters of the 25^th & 29^th of November & 7^th & December 1793. with their respective enclosures, to which particular & due attention has and shall be paid Enclosed are the Returns & estimates of the articles actually wanted in the Quarter master Generals, the ordnance & Hospital departments for 1794. The Returns for the last quarter of articles received, &c^d on hand are incomplete, except in the Ordnance department; those of the Quartermaster General will be forwarded from Fort Washington and those of the Hospital will be made out & forwarded by the next opportunity. I also transmit a General Return of the Legion, and of the number of men whose term of enlistment will expire on or before the 31 May, next together with the vacancies that have taken place since the list of promotions & organization that I had the honor of transmitting on the 7^th of last — those promotions & arrangements, I was induced to make from the causes therein mentioned as well as from the following paragraph contained in your letter of the 13 april 1793 —viz I conceive in case of all vacancies the officers clearly entitled to those vacancies are to fill them as soon as they occur, but it ought to be well noted that the successors are clearly entitled — The four appointments viz Ensigns Dangerfield & Boye & Cornets Forey & Blue I could not well resist from the circumstance of their being acting active Cadets with the Legion at a period when we were in extreme want of Subaltern Officers, as well as from their character as Gentlemen & their connections in the Legion. one of them, M^r Boye, is now no more — he fell gallantly in Lowry's affair after killing the principal savage chief with his own hand.— I have nominated Major John Mills adjutant & Inspector General,