West Point 21 March 1786 Letter partly in — — with Timothy Pickleton the the Issuing of Provisions and herewith transmits Rect for the amount of [undecipherable] 69 [undecipherable] 185 — Please give Mr James Adams on the Contractor for Issuing him his [undecipherable] fund of Arms which makes the Number of two Thousand — In my last I [undecipherable] of you of the Defection of my Men [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] Before the Illness on them, since which all the [undecipherable] which was [undecipherable] has Returned and been right on two wheels as soon [undecipherable] to from [undecipherable] tent, and the Arm of New York which deferred from the [undecipherable] — I [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] to take hopes of the [undecipherable] who was the Dispirited [undecipherable] Parker on whom I am now nothing of them. I have Reason to believe they intend to New York, but the [undecipherable] was here and they have taken about with them — Yr obt The Honorable Major Gen^l Knox Secretary at War --- West Point 21 March 1786 Agreeable to [undecipherable] I ask the Mr James Adams [undecipherable] of Issuing that the — James Shannon has [undecipherable] from Fourteen Stand of Arms for the United States at eighteen — Ninety for the [undecipherable] of a Doloun each, and is entitled to Receive the [undecipherable] sum for the furthering of the Arms at the War Office in New York five days after the Certificate is Presented which makes the Number of two for the Thousand to his Remedy — Yr obt The Honorable Major Gen^l Knox Secretary at War