Workers & have never been busy — there was but the 3 Privates Belong[ing] one [undecipherable] had, one Capt [undecipherable] had a [undecipherable] and I have forwarded one to Capt [undecipherable] Father — this attended him in the [undecipherable] and they lost About [undecipherable] hand but yet was left after [undecipherable] the books for the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] — as there is now but 13 up with your Permission I will [undecipherable] more of the 70 [undecipherable] were laid — I have furnished M^r [undecipherable] with [undecipherable] the late his [undecipherable] [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] his Men and Taken his Receipt — I am for your [undecipherable] The Honnoble Brigr G^d Knox Secretary at War — West Point 1^st May 1786 [Copy] M^r Saffond has been to [undecipherable] and Returned, and with [undecipherable] was with him Account of his Proceedings — he was gone five Days upon the Business I have sent by M^r [undecipherable] an account of M^r [undecipherable] for taking Care of Capt Bradley — the Honn^ble Brigr [undecipherable] at [undecipherable] — I am for you — West Point 22 May 1786 [undecipherable] Agreeable to Contract made with M^r [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the said [undecipherable] has Cleared One Hundred [undecipherable] Three Hundred Sixty five the Private [undecipherable] not exceeding [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of a Dollar each, and is entitled to Fifteen [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for Buildings for the term, at [undecipherable] after [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] in five Days after this [undecipherable] to be had, which makes the number of three [undecipherable] which he has Cleared I am [undecipherable] The Honorable Brigr [undecipherable] Knox — Secretary at War —