West Point 8 August 1791 I had the honor of writing [undecipherable] Respecting the Men to [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] the Provision — There is Annexed a Return of the [undecipherable: Admans] [undecipherable] at this post — also a [undecipherable] Abstract for the Artificer Employed here in the Month of July 1780 of money Can be found for them it will be a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] as Capt [undecipherable] Jeffards, and that [undecipherable] expect it as they inform me, That M^r Hutton [undecipherable] it to them [undecipherable] — There was three hundred and twenty [undecipherable] Items Cloathed in the Last Month, — the [undecipherable] have [undecipherable] Come safe to hand — I am &c yours William Price [undecipherable] [The Honble Major Gen^l Knox] [undecipherable] Sir West Point [undecipherable] August [undecipherable] I received yours of 5 May, on 9 June, but having in the mean [strikethrough: undecipherable] Received Orders from the war Office respecting the [undecipherable] Cloaks, [undecipherable] yours Come too late, — and having been [undecipherable] for five months last have Not been able to [undecipherable] the Necessary Information respecting the [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] over again, — as no provision [undecipherable] is near this [undecipherable], but I have made every Inquiry in my [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] it you, as far as [undecipherable] — yours of [9^th] [undecipherable] was handed to me on [9^th] [undecipherable]. it is [undecipherable] Certain that [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in respect to the [undecipherable] as most of them are [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] of them Nothing — [undecipherable] [strikethrough: three] three of them, being [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable], but M^r [undecipherable] has [undecipherable] more to [supply?] these [places?] — [undecipherable] regard to the other pay for [undecipherable] it has always been [undecipherable] since I had any thing to do with the [undecipherable] — and agreeable to your [undecipherable] I have [undecipherable] their [undecipherable: Draughts], as I [undecipherable] no doubt it will be paid for [undecipherable] I am sure that no men was [undecipherable] (at least any I ever had [undecipherable] any directions) and is Preferable [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — Department and has received their pay for the last [undecipherable] in [undecipherable], and if they Expect the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] better than my [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] Department, — there are [undecipherable] Reason to [undecipherable] [undecipherable], and I [undecipherable] to think that your [undecipherable] were not [undecipherable] [undecipherable] thing to [undecipherable] Rank as my Neighbours and [undecipherable] if it Can be Obtained [undecipherable] [undecipherable] by M^r [undecipherable] — I should [undecipherable] be happy to see you at this [undecipherable] — I am &c yours most sincerely William Price [undecipherable] [undecipherable] M^r [undecipherable] [undecipherable] M^r [undecipherable]