Workers & have now been doing — there was but little & [undecipherable] duty in our [undecipherable] having had our Cap^t [undecipherable] commanded — & I have forwarded one to Cap^t [undecipherable] about their situation in the [undecipherable] and they talk about relieving [undecipherable] hand but [undecipherable] was left after [supply?]ing the books for the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] — as there is now how to up with your [undecipherable] I will get [undecipherable] some of the [undecipherable] does now laid — I have furnished M^r [undecipherable] with [undecipherable] his [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Serrels to [undecipherable] his men and taken his Receipt — I am for your hum^t — The Honorable Brigr. Gen. [undecipherable] Secretary at War — West Point 1^st May 1786 [Copy] M^r [undecipherable] has been to [undecipherable] and [undecipherable], and well served us with an 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 Cap^t [undecipherable] the Honorable [undecipherable] your [undecipherable] at War — I am for you — West Point 22 May 1786 [undecipherable] Agreeable to Contract made with M^r [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] the said mess mason has Claim [undecipherable] Hundred [undecipherable] into the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] not [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of a Dollar each and is entitled to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] building [undecipherable] at [undecipherable] after a [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] in five days after this [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] which makes [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] which he has [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — The Honorable Brigr. Gen. [undecipherable] [undecipherable] at War —