I recd [received] your Letters by Mr Clung - and observed the Contents_ Mr Cousin set off for [unclear: N ] [gap] Carolina with Colonel Blount this day week _ nothing has been done with respect to journalising [journalizing] the payments_ Chimneys will be finished by the time you return_ the Brick gave out and there will not be any to complete untill [until] next monday_ we have had so much rain that the workmen could not go on with the Kiln_ I expect you recieved [received] your letters by Col [Colonel] Hays who recd [received] them prior to your Letter reaching me- I have one more from Boston which I shall Keep untill you return- Chisolm has many but has orders to deliver them in person_ I conversed with the Govr [Governor] about Indian goods they have not as yet come forward, he told me he ordered Chisolm to [unclear: procure ] at Boat which Chisolm has done- the waggons [wagons] are expected in a few days and the Govr says Chisolm has the care of Goods &c [etcetera] &c &c I have paid fifty Eight dollars over the 500 left me for Indian department and intirely [entirely] out of Bills I Cash and Cannot pay off my men to be discharged this month without borrowing or negotiating a Loan with the Dutch- Arthur Horse gone by Miller- You may keep white Hall untill you

sett [set] off for the northward___

Benjamin has a great plenty of Corn- Fodder &c I have directed him to exchange fifty Bushels of Corn with a man who is moving near [gap] Birds from our quarter___

I hope your Ventilators will soon waft you home- in health and to the relief of

Dear Sir
Your Obd [Obedient] Servant

Wm Richard

Colonel D. [David] Henley

[added: NB [Nota Bene] The Militia are called out again to protect the frontiers of Washington & Hamilton districts as my men are discharged-] [added: Knoxville
2 Oct 1795
Capt [Captain] Richard Letter]