Detroit Nov^10th 99 Sir I received your letter at Mackinac, but not having an Opportunity of sending forward [strikethrough: the] a Statement of the Accounts agreeably to your request I now Inclose them aw[i]t Wilson Pay Master to the 2^d Regt who leaves this tomorrow Morning for Pitts[bu]rg will take Charge of them & will forward Immediately on his [strikethrough: arrival] arrival at that place I also Inclose you a Copy of [strikethrough: the for] Pittsburgth I have been Info[rmed] as [undecipherable] which I have Attested[?] to by a Magistrate at Mackinac also You Know Instructions for conducting the [Indi]ans from Philadelphia to Boston by order of the [undecipherable] President I have wrote to Captain Mills with whom I left my Instructions from Gen^l Knox to conduct the Indians from that City to their own Country & deliver Presents to the families of those who died in Philadelphia to forward soon as poss ible together with Gen^l Dulmans Certificate who has Agent & Superintendant of Indian Affairs by his Order I was sent from Vincennes to conduct the Indians to the Seat of Government — I am Y^r Your Obed^t Servant A. [undecipherable] Cap^t ain 1^st Regiment — [Wm. Simmons Esq^r Act. Sec^t. of War]