[Trenton, Octob^r 18^th [undecipherable] 1800] your favour of the 10^th Ult^o to the care of Col Hartley was duly received and take 3 of the monthly and parts of 2 [undecipherable] and on the 25^th Ult. the duplicates of the first I had received earlier and am now [undecipherable] sent in direct Papers one of the making [undecipherable] under the command of [undecipherable] and referring this gentleman [undecipherable] order to M^r Mitchell to remove to the [undecipherable] to be had [undecipherable] by necessity to his very long and [undecipherable] Under idea if approved [undecipherable] of the same was [undecipherable] — under [undecipherable] from the [undecipherable], as a plan how that [undecipherable] was allowed to be more complete — Our Indians and Chiefs are mostly in the woods and probably will not return home the same time [undecipherable] address the number of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to wreak [undecipherable] revenge on a near [undecipherable] for the nation, my information — I cannot throw on the [undecipherable] last month — [undecipherable] then and [undecipherable] and in a general [undecipherable] [undecipherable] which the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — a short of years of the [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] came very late that in relation [undecipherable] with the last [undecipherable] relay — I have just [undecipherable] information from the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and all the [undecipherable] on board [undecipherable] is coming from [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] — wife of the [undecipherable] and at this request to account [undecipherable] them [undecipherable] Island where they did [undecipherable] a back [undecipherable] [undecipherable] a slave nation — He could [undecipherable] the latest news but he is [undecipherable] [undecipherable] he would not be safe to go in [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] but their [undecipherable] was to take the whole number — the [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] of the body between [undecipherable] and the [undecipherable] was [undecipherable] if [undecipherable] to — to [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] must be [undecipherable] annually — the [undecipherable] of the army — remarks to M^r Price — as two [undecipherable] of War are without [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] of yours is a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — so should [undecipherable] his [undecipherable] on our frontiers — If you would need [undecipherable] M^r [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for to me — [undecipherable] any other person — I shall direct the [undecipherable] where to apply — the [undecipherable] author hand be furnished, from your office with the bonds and licences and if they could be sent to the annual meeting, as the traders generally attend they could also be supplied — I am much in want of the Laws of the United States if you could send a set by post they would come safe to hand me by fort Wilkinson — I have the honour to be very respectfully S^r y^r obedient Serv^t. His Honble Samuel Dexter Secretary of War