[b. 594] West Point 22 March 1784 [8] Sir Having received a letter from M^r Hodgden about employing three Coopers the ensuing Summer for to Barrel the Powder — Will you be pleased to enquire and let me know what they Can be got for per Month, allowing them one and half Ration for day — I will thank you to inform me as soon as possible, so that I may write M^r Hodgden on the Subject. I am Sir Your Very Humb^le Serv^t William Price [Col^o [undecipherable] [undecipherable] New York —] Sir West Point 23 March 1785 I have been to Philadelphia about having two thousand [undecipherable] Casks made for the Garrison to Contain 100 hundred lbs of Powder — Informed me that you offered to supply them last Spring at 6/6 York Currency for Cash — Will you please to inform me within you will supply them for that this Season, if not the lowest they Can be got you delivered at this Post between the first of June and the first of September at different times — I want to inform me as soon as Convenient as I have to write to Philadelphia on the Subject — also what they Can the Coopers for per Month, allowing them one and half Ration for day —— I am Sir Your Humb^le Serv^t William Price [undecipherable] [L^t [Henry] Hay at Poughkeepsie]