The H^ble Secretary of War Coleraine 3^d Oct^r. 5. 1797 Sir Inclosed you have a State of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] on the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] 1797 the wants of Indians gathered more [undecipherable] a being [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] but [undecipherable] being no [undecipherable] [undecipherable] confined to them my inability to come forth [undecipherable] to them. I have been as well [undecipherable] possible to [undecipherable] [undecipherable], and I trust it is not materially otherwise. The Stock in hand is [undecipherable] of what [undecipherable] not [undecipherable] me the [undecipherable] may appear high in [undecipherable] been [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the past year. The [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the passage and not [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] a [undecipherable] of Indians have been detained a long time working for [undecipherable] [undecipherable] at the expense of the [undecipherable: factory]. There has been no accommodation at this station or within a long [undecipherable] journey of this for [undecipherable] [undecipherable] this way as [undecipherable] not well used to [undecipherable] them [undecipherable] [undecipherable] at [undecipherable] now [undecipherable] [undecipherable] going. I [undecipherable] the road is [undecipherable] [undecipherable] on my arrival [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] this station [undecipherable] [undecipherable]. I cannot [undecipherable] a letter from [undecipherable] Gaither at the 1^st March which [undecipherable] recommends [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] by way of [undecipherable: Savannah] and [undecipherable: Augusta] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Sentinel as soon as [undecipherable] can [undecipherable] consignment [undecipherable] Indians having [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] at this [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] over [undecipherable] [undecipherable] do [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] us too much. I have been [undecipherable: obliged] to supply them with some [undecipherable: provisions] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in order to [undecipherable] from them [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] of the cattle they have [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]. Several have [undecipherable] this [undecipherable] we have a Blacksmith here who does a great deal of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] all of [undecipherable] they as to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] they take [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] which is done with [undecipherable] [undecipherable] do for the [undecipherable] I [undecipherable] [undecipherable] material he can make [undecipherable] for his store he would clear all expenses of the shop [undecipherable]. At present a very good [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] for a Baptist [undecipherable] in them at [undecipherable] he asks one dollar [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] respecting this matter [undecipherable] it was the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] roads [undecipherable] for the [undecipherable] at the expense of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] have recco a letter from Tim. [undecipherable: Barnard's] [undecipherable] in the department of Indian affairs residing in the [undecipherable] nation who informs he never knew the Indians more inclined to peace he says Col Hawkins is gone out to run the Cher[undecipherable: okee] line from that to the Choctaw, Chickasaw. I have reed no official account from Col. Hawkins his good [undecipherable] here still E.P.