[Illegible Text notice: 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] [Address leaf: Jam^s Hodgdon, Esq^r. Philadelphia] [25] [Cincinnate] [(125)] [ans'd [undecipherable] by [undecipherable] Colo] Cincinnate Oct. 26^th 1794. [No. 123] In the 15^th [undecipherable] at the plains from the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] your letter of the 22^d of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Dollars on [undecipherable] Note and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] fall of M^r Robert [undecipherable] Elect[undecipherable] of the Contractors who was Killed by the Indians the 6^th instant, leaving [undecipherable] of Fort [undecipherable] with [undecipherable] [undecipherable] leaving [undecipherable] That [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] were Obliged to advance Two five Hundred [undecipherable] hundred dollars, in order to [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] for the Army, and Shall [undecipherable] [undecipherable] furnish [undecipherable] Same, before the Arrival of M^r Williams. — You will therefore please to Apply for and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] my Bills Already drawn on [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the 15^th [undecipherable] [undecipherable] 1. [undecipherable] 8000 [undecipherable] each } 8000 favor [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] 1000 Dollars each } on [undecipherable] 2 Bills for 2000 Dollars each } [undecipherable] favor [undecipherable] [undecipherable] 3 Bills for 1000 Dollars each } on order Amounting in the whole to 15800 Dollars of which you will please to have duly Honored. — you was [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] at this place without [undecipherable] 15000 dollars of my [undecipherable] the present year for payment of the [undecipherable] debt. [undecipherable] 1795 [No. 125] [undecipherable] 4^th Army at [undecipherable] Vermile[undecipherable] on the 16^th the Volunteers, have arrived here this day on their way Home, being discharged, the Command is [undecipherable] with the [undecipherable] of the Legion, [undecipherable] to be at Greenville on the 25^th. — a [undecipherable] of 350 Men [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Commanded [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Major [undecipherable] Commanding [undecipherable] at the Confluence of the [undecipherable] and staying with a garrison of 200. In communication between [undecipherable] two [undecipherable] being [undecipherable] eight and a [undecipherable] by land, and I [undecipherable] [undecipherable] by [undecipherable] [undecipherable] lately opened, on the 3^d instant [undecipherable] a [undecipherable] too Tons, just on the [undecipherable] of those [undecipherable] [undecipherable] on the [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the Miami [undecipherable] with [undecipherable] for defence [undecipherable] Major M^cA[undecipherable] and right M^r [undecipherable] this day I have the pleasure to [undecipherable] Arrived at that [undecipherable] I wrote you from this on the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] which [undecipherable] Carried [undecipherable] for the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] We have had no communication with the Indians since that time, but I am told by [undecipherable] that they certainly must come forward notwithstanding all the force of their allied mercenaries promoting their [undecipherable] [undecipherable] their loss by the Campaign is more than the Ca[undecipherable] and although my Estimate of their loss in War[undecipherable] on the 20^th of August is higher than [undecipherable] [undecipherable]. I am very confid[undecipherable] that I was [undecipherable] in my letter to you by Reynolds a[undecipherable] [undecipherable] Chief[s] of the Wyandots and Miamis [undecipherable] number. — [undecipherable] been [undecipherable] in not [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Marquee. The old one is [undecipherable] with [undecipherable] & [undecipherable]. I am, Sir, Your very Hum[ble Serv^t] [undecipherable] Esq^r James [undecipherable: Miller?] Lieut. Ma[undecipherable] Philadelphia