Howell requests Swan's attention regarding the advances to the representatives of soldiers. For want of some arrangement in Swan's department, the thing was unavoidable but needs to be addressed.
Knox updated Wayne on plans for representatives to travel to Niagara for signing of treaty, appointment of surgeon's mate, and politics relative to deserter who happens to have respectable parents.
From Quartermaster General's Dept. and Commissary of Military Stores Dept. Account Book. Estimate of the sum necessary to procure the listed stores wanted for the Army and Laboratory on the Western Frontier
O'Hara refers to providing for the Indians on their way to Philadelphia, settling with the artificers. Shall endeavor to have less payments made in account to the people employed in the department in the future [illegible] to Deputies and Commissaries cannot be avoided. Refers to former letter whereby O'Hara hoped that he would not have to call for further supply of arms before spring. Nonetheless will request advance from Secretary of War principally owing to the expenditures at Fort Washington being greater. Discusses organization of Quarter Master Department and responsibilities. Discusses purchasing and invoicing; regulations for distribution of public property. Asks for Hodgdon's opinion on matters. Nothing of consequence to report from the camp at Legion Ville. The commander in chief [presumably General Anthony Wayne] has not be from the camp since the legion got on the ground.
Swan does not think that it is advisable for Howell to pay Captain Abner Prior for any month before August 1792. His pay up to that point is in Britt's hands.
Blount agonizes over the two narrowly averted invasions of Cherokee towns and proposes that a tribunal be created with jurisdiction over trials of offenders agains treaties.
Treaty negotiations will be held on the St. Dusky [Sandusky] River to determine once and for all whether or not there will be war with the Indians. A deserter named Richardson is the son of worthy parents in Maryland so it is hoped that, if he is caught, some resolution of his fate might be reached short of death.
Enclosed is a duplicate muster and payroll for Captain John Adair's mounted militia from Kentucky in the service of the United States during the year 1792.
Swan acknowledges receipt of $63.50 in advances made by Howell to the wives of eight non-commissioned officers and privates, $108 to Elizabeth Balfour, and $30 to Samuel Hodgdon for Dr. Brown, a total of $201.50. Swan has receipted for no more than the exact sum delivered by Dr. Strong. Swan notes the risks of advancing money to the wives without certainty of the status of their husbands.
