Hartford Sept. 6^th 1795 [undecipherable] letter of the first instant — inclosing [undecipherable] to regulate trade and intercourse [undecipherable] Nations. Should not a commission for [undecipherable] the St Regis indians have accompan[ied] [undecipherable] consider your letter as sufficient Evi[dence] [undecipherable] there will not be time for [undecipherable] response — me to receive your answer here & be at Fort George by the 10^th. I shall therefore be at Albany & th[ence] & request your answer to meet me there — I could not write you by return of the Post which bro't me your letters as the western mail never arrives here by the time fixed [so] near — it that we get our letters until the next day — You &c Timod Pickering Sec^y War [Copy]