Memorandum for Colo Pickering - 6^th March 1785 (Two brass six pounders to be engraven for Gen. Greene.) Taken from the Britons, and presented to Major General Green by order of Congress, as an illustri- ous monument of their high Sense of his Military talents most faithfully displayed in the conduct of the Southern Army, amidst complicated Difficulties and Dangers, against an enemy greatly Superior in numbers — Philadelphia 6^th Janu^y 1785 Memorandum Colonel Pickering will please to call on the Commandant at West point for two pieces of Ordnance, two [undecipherable] six pounders with their Carriages compleat and having obtained them he will please to agree with M^r Billings upon the best terms he can to put on them the above inscription with such Deco- -rations as are suitable for which he is here- honorably paid — James Hodgdon Comst Mil Stores