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                                                                           Springfield Nov 10 1800

Sir

    Enclosed is a Return of the Articles purchased

for & expenditures in the Armory for the quarter ending Sep 30 inst. with the Superintendents Receipts ____

      I expected two thousand Dollars this way expe (expent)

I notice in your letter of the 4th inst. it has not come to hand ___ I presume before this you have rcvd.? my letter of the 1st inst. acknowledging the Receipt of f nine hundred Dollars enclosed in your letter of the 27th ult. being the ballance owe on Estimate for September

                                             I
                                               am
                                                     Sir
                                                          most respectfully
                                                               xxxxxxxxxxxxx
            Samuel Hodgdon Esquire               Joseph Williams

                                              Springfield Nov 10th 1800

Sir

     Will you be good enough to purchase

for the use of the United States Armory at this Post Two Barrels neatsfoot Oil__One tun Father & Son Steel Two hundred pounds of good Brass about 60% of it sheet Brass & one hundred pounds Cast steel, and forward the same by the first vessel bound to Hartford to be delivered John Cooley Boatman ____ Be good enough to forward your bills to your father that proper vouchers for me be made in his name

                                     I 
                                        am
                                              Sir
                                                  most respectfully
                                             Joseph. Williams

Theodore Ely Esquire

                 New York