[[undecipherable] to / [undecipherable] November / 1794] The ho[no]ble Innes Edmund Randolph Secretary of State [(307)] Philadelphia [Received from State Dep't. Nov. 24. 1894. R.P.O. 401810.] my dear Sir. Lancaster. Nov^t 22^d 1794. an Indisposition, arising from a very bad [undecipherable] [undecipherable], bad weather, and bad horses, have detained me here two days – To [undecipherable: probable reading "totel"] the [undecipherable: probable reading "appearing"] of my travelling apparatus, furnished at Philadelphia, render it indispensably necess[ar]y, to be [undecipherable] when arrived – It is [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] carriage and horses in each were here [undecipherable] on the day of my arrival at this place – The carriage intended for one to [undecipherable] being unhappily unfit for that purpose – I shall leave in the care of [undecipherable] to be delivered [undecipherable] called for, by the Quarter master or his agents – Of all [undecipherable] events, I [undecipherable: probable reading "apprized"] you by letter delivered to the care of Thomas Morris, Esquire, who promised me to [undecipherable] it to you – Agreeable to the advice therein contained, I now draw upon you for the amount of my outfits, from hence according to the [undecipherable] herewith sent – The carriage I [undecipherable] to sell at Fort [undecipherable: probable reading "Pitt"] for more than [undecipherable] cost – or I will [undecipherable] it to be sold here on Public account – The horses are fifty per Cent cheaper, and a hundred per Cent better than can be procured at Philadelphia – Upon the whole, I [undecipherable] my new arrangement preferable in point of frugality – and would the [undecipherable], I should never have reached the [undecipherable] of my destination – Back of the [undecipherable] river as I shall not [undecipherable] down the Ohio – I will leave with Major Craig the Quarter master at Fort Pitt – If you would obtain an order in my favor, from the War Office, on Major O'Hara the Quarter master residing in Kentucky, for such equipments as may be necessary for me to return [undecipherable] the Wilderness – It would be very [undecipherable] – With great respect I am [undecipherable] Jas Innes