Now I have all pages. Let me transcribe the primary letter (pages 2–3), using the cleaner copies (pages 5–6) to resolve obscured passages, and noting the cover/docket from page 1. [Docket, cover page: "...House, to / ...dle woo[d] / ...eral of / [undecipherable]"; center address block [undecipherable]; left margin filing notation: 1794] [Received from State Mo. Nov. 24 R.P.O. 40130] Pittsburg 18^th July 1794. Dear Sir, I received Your letter of the 12^th instant enclosed with two Packets which Shall go forward to [to]morrow Morning, but it will be proper to advise You that all Packets and letters not Franked sent forward by the Weekly Mail Boat (which is the speediest & most Certain Conveyance) will be Charged with Postage I will therefore thank You to mention that circumstance to Major Stagg— All the Chests & Boxes of Medicine that came to hand this season were immediately sent on to Fort Washington, Presuming that a Chest or Chests Pa[rticularly] Marked was on the way for the upper posts I Shall endeavour to have the Trench Gentleman Trunk brought from Galliopolis & sent to him— About day Break in the morning of the 16^th instant a number of armed men attacked Gen^l Nevils House he himself only defending it, he however dispersed the party, having wounded six or seven, one of him it is said Mortaly. & Yesterday a large Number [of] armed men Amounting to it is said seven hundred [who] attacked his House defended only by [him]self, Maj^r Kirkpatrick & ten Soldiers, during the [attack] Gen^l Nevill seeing it imposible to Defend the [House] against such Numbers, took an oppurtunity of Escaping & Concealing himself in a Thicket, Kirkpatrick continued to Defend the House, till one of his men was killed & four others Badly wounded; Having killed two and Wounded several of [the] Insurgents.— as soon as the Maj^r [surrendered] the enemy set fire to the House, which Consumed to ashes with all the Property it Contained, not a single Article saved only the Clothing the family had on when escaped during the attack. Previous to Burning the House, they had set fire to the Barn Stables Kitchen & Granery, which were also Consumed with their Contents, amongst which were Seven Valuable Horses and a large Quantity of Grain— Maj Lenox Col. Nevill myself and two others in [attempt]ing to get into the House with a supp[ly of ammu]nition were made Prisoners, disarmed and [confi]ned till the action was Over & then Carried several Miles to their Randevouz treated Maj Lenox with the Utmost Indignity & all of us with insu[l]t; [d]uring the night, I was happy enough to make my Escape & to find Gen^l Nevill & to escort him to my House where he now is, he having to begin the world anew. M^rs Nevill and [a] little Daughter are Both safe, I have not [yet] slept my Head aches & I feel otherwise Very unwell. I am with much [esteem] [Yours &c.] Sam^l. Hodgeton Esquire