[Endorsement on wrapper: Col. [undecipherable] 1794 — [undecipherable] Major [undecipherable] Nixon] [Filing notation: No. 27] West Point May 20. 1794 Sir yours of the 5 Inst^t is come to hand, on the receipt thereof I repaired to this place, altho the compensation you mention is not Equal to the loss I shall sustain, yet as this never was my only object in rendering service to my Country I shall endeavour to forward the work with all possible Dispatch. Major [Thurning?], and myself is making the necessary arrangement to carrie on the works, and should be glad to receive your plan of the redoubt, and which the repairs at Fort [Patman?] on the redoubt should be build first — I have the honor to be Sir your very obed^t Serv^t D. Viven Major Gen^l Knox