[Docket: N° 6 / Nashville Oct: 1 1800 / [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] factory [undecipherable]] Fort Milhmackinac May 26^th 1800 Sir, I am sorry it has not been in my power to forward the Acc.^t you particularly requested in your favour of the 5^th of March last. M. [undecipherable] is charged with a considerable [undecipherable] the after [undecipherable] as a security for [undecipherable] sundry Indian Country [undecipherable], in this case to it will require some Time, and an Assis-tant to ascertain what is Actually due from him as none of M.^r Grey [undecipherable: probable reading "papers"] appear to have been exam-ined into the Journals. — It will also be difficult to ascertain the Amo.^t of Mr. Price's private Acc.^t with the Factory, he has charged him-self with [strikethrough: yds] [strikethrough: calling without p] with a number of Articles without [strikethrough: not] mentioning the quantity or price. [strikethrough: Our aged Gent...p] A Mr. D. Gibbons an aged Quaker Gent.ⁿ from Chester, arrived here a few days since, who informed me he had call-been applied to by Mr. Price's friends to here and enquire into the state of his affairs [strikethrough: here]; he is gone to Colo Hawkins in the Nation, expects to return by the [undecipherable] of [strikethrough: next?] [undecipherable] when he shall try to make a statement of his private Acc.^t [strikethrough: from] from the beginnings his property that has come to my [strikethrough: knowledge] view [undecipherable] [undecipherable] except his [undecipherable] Books, is a Silver Watch, a Rifle Gun, and a [undecipherable] Pistol, there was an As-riding Chain which his [undecipherable] kept to take away before I came, [strikethrough: that] I have not seen — The Woman he bought, for 350 dollars I can find charged only in his Cash book, under the head of Expences so that she cannot [undecipherable] her [undecipherable] considered his private property. [strikethrough: a few days since] I was afured for [undecipherable] [strikethrough: her] [undecipherable] 4 M.^{s th} for 430 Doll.^s Cash, I found her useless about the factory and hired her out in the Garrison, three Months [strikethrough: at] at 3 D.^s [undecipherable] M.^th [undecipherable] dispen[se] [undecipherable] I wish to be informed if I may [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Children. — [strikethrough: There is one] [undecipherable] thought at [undecipherable] the Indians apparently have all gone home, it is thought, [strikethrough: by Colo Garten,] they will make War against the U.S. should it be the case I wish to be [strikethrough: instructed] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [strikethrough: what] [undecipherable] I shall [undecipherable] act, [strikethrough: it] [strikethrough: would] [undecipherable] be a disagreeable place for me to live in [undecipherable] especially with my family, [strikethrough: the Troops] the Troops are badly [strikethrough: supplied] [undecipherable] have been badly supplied with provisions ever since I came here, and if [strikethrough: the] [undecipherable] all in the Garrison should be forced into the Fort we could not [strikethrough: cannot] subsist long, as there is [strikethrough: supposed] belonging to the Camp, about 200 Women & Children, and the Indians would no doubt [strikethrough: make] [strikethrough: attempt] try to [undecipherable] preventing supplies coming to the Fort I shall write Mr. Clay, [strikethrough: cutting] [undecipherable] Savannah to forward no more goods [strikethrough: till he hears from] [undecipherable] should [undecipherable] come on till he hears from me; I am packing [strikethrough: the] [undecipherable] Woolen [undecipherable] away with Tob. to prevent the [strikethrough: damp] [undecipherable] Moths, and if a disturbance takes place with the Indians so as to prevent the Trade going on, I would wish to be [undecipherable] to go to a small [strikethrough: known by the name] Town about 22 Mile from here, with the Books & papers of the Factory and there adjust them — [The?] please Sir, to let me hear from you, on this Subject as soon as possible I [undecipherable] [undecipherable] some Days writing soon. Colo Hawkins is to hold a national talk with the Ind.ⁿ the 1^st of next Month he [strikethrough: expects to] [undecipherable] be here shortly [strikethrough: after] [undecipherable] In.^s Rec.^d the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] Hawkins [undecipherable] Drawn by him on his Home the Sec.^y of War at [strikethrough: a few days?] 50 Cents, [undecipherable] in my [undecipherable] for 1600 — [undecipherable] [strikethrough: ten days?] [undecipherable] dated the 1^st of Ap.^t last — I have [undecipherable] it to you as I have factory Money to discharge it, have indorsed it to you, as a remittance on the Factory Account — I am Sir Y.^r ob.^t Hbl.^t Ser.^t E. [undecipherable] [undecipherable] S. [undecipherable] (M.^r Jno. Hawkins Keeper of Military Stores Phil.^a) The original of this letter — I sent to the post Office by 7 OClock in the morning of [strikethrough: the] Tuesday the 27^th May 1800, my boy returned [undecipherable] [undecipherable], the post had gone, but M.^r Hall told him the post was to stop at his House, he took my letters, but knowing the Mail ought not to be opened after he left the Office, [strikethrough: I sent] and supposing M.^r Hall intended keeping them in his possession till next post Day, I wrote him to return my letters which he did. —