[Page 1 — Illegible Text placeholder: Some or all of the pages of this file are wholly or in part illegible. We have not been able either to locate a better copy of the document, or to enhance its legibility electronically] [#881 16^th July 1794 to Major Gen^l H. Knox Secretary of War] [undecipherable: Agreeabl...] receiving Orders Head Quarters Greeneville 16^th July 1794 Sir I have the honor to inclose a few [undecipherable] with a return of Mounted Volunteers from Major [undecipherable] on Lake & Capt Bailey — M^r [undecipherable] has [undecipherable] that Washington [undecipherable] are now ordered to this place without a moments delay. From every [undecipherable] the head Stocks of the [undecipherable] on their retreat from Fort Recovery [undecipherable] [undecipherable] it would appear that the [undecipherable] & Potawatamies [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] Others did not join [undecipherable] me from that Place [undecipherable] at [undecipherable] Towards the Towns of about Twenty five Miles on other trail broke off to the right & [undecipherable] an Easterly [undecipherable] towards the [undecipherable] supposed to be [undecipherable] Beyondols [undecipherable] that M[undecipherable] [undecipherable], & that there were from two hundred & [undecipherable] to three Hundred, [undecipherable] of them [undecipherable] [undecipherable] but [undecipherable] [undecipherable] course Fort Grand Glaize, There [undecipherable] Spies & Patrols out from [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I am well persuaded of the [undecipherable] of securing a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] & fully intelligent [undecipherable] respecting the [undecipherable] & Savages at Michilimac & Roche de Bout [undecipherable] to be in motion in this [undecipherable] Country or [undecipherable] during the last [undecipherable] of Volunteers under [undecipherable] orders of [undecipherable] Knox to follow & [undecipherable] [undecipherable] will be [undecipherable] while we [undecipherable] or the Mission of the [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] we can best [undecipherable] Grand [undecipherable] at Roche de Bout — both or circumstances may [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] battles not [undecipherable] that M. St. Simons may be drawn out to fight this [undecipherable] allies on that score at one [undecipherable] afford an Opening for the [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] or [undecipherable] without much difficulty or [undecipherable] — I shall [undecipherable] you more fully after [undecipherable] The arrival of the first [undecipherable] of the Kentucky Volunteers [undecipherable] & hopes to the difficulties thrown in the way of [undecipherable] these troublesome [undecipherable] as they [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Junior [undecipherable] Colonel Your most Ob^t [undecipherable] Anth^y W. Wayne