[794] [Addressed: General John Neville Philadelphia] [Endorsement, upper right: undecipherable] [Postmark stamp: undecipherable] Pittsburgh 19 September 1794 Sir, I have Received your Letter of the 12^th Instant, together with One from Coll. P Neville of same date.— [strikethrough: I am Sorry my Letter] has not reached You, I have not neglected to write by every Post, but as my Letter to You have been [undecipherable] in the War Office Packet, it will be proper to enquire of Major Stagg. Mr Nevill, Mr Craig, Mr P. Neville & Mr Kirkpatrick together with all Our Families are well, We are Since our Association Enabled to Sleep in Peace. On the day Assigned for taking the Sense of the People [strikethrough: only the [undecipherable] at Redstone] at [undecipherable: possibly Pittsburgh] a Declaration for peace and— [undecipherable] very few came forward on that day, but have Since & are daily coming in, claiming the Benefit of the Amnesty, in Other Places a Respect[undecipherable] notwithstanding the Insurgents are Generally directed by their Leaders, the Officers of Government therefore are mostly [undecipherable] the Ignorant, & deluded who have been led astray by a Sett of Designing Men, that have taken Shelter under the Amnesty Offered by the Commissioners, & will Escape a Punishment that must Ultimately on [undecipherable], but Deluded Multitude. At a Meeting of the Association last evening it is agreed, that the Loyalist Citizens, ought not to Consider themselves in a St[undecipherable] of Proscription any longer, and are therefore Invited to Return to their Families & Connections, but notwithstanding [undecipherable] all the Gentlemen Proscribed would be safe in Pittsburgh, & I am Still of Opinion that it would be imprudent, any of them, come here without a Strong Escort, perhaps Yours— Mifflin's Legion Present my Respects to Coll Neville, M^r [undecipherable], & our other Friends, & tell Coll Neville I have not time to w[undecipherable] him by this Port.— I am Dear Sir your Obed^t Hum^ble Serv^t — [Signature — undecipherable] General Neville Philadelphia —