Sir West Point, 1^st June 1786 37. I have forwarded [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the returns of [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] m[undecipherable] for the Month of May 1786 Agreeable to your [undecipherable] I have [engaged] M^r [Brown?] when the [guns] [lay] and Patterns to be had last [summer], which I believe is as [undecipherable: valuable] as any man I can get Considering the [undecipherable] of the Affairs as it will again a [undecipherable] of Judgment to [sort] out the Arms, and he will be often [left] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] claim The Commissary informed me that the [Cabinet] for [Provisions] Closed [yester]day, and no person [applying] different any after a new one, I have drawn [upon] him again for [undecipherable] [Provisions] for the Men — [undecipherable] The Honorable Major Gen^l [Henry] Knox, Secretary at War — Sir West Point, 2^d June 1786 — Last Night from of [Louis] [Bellinger], [was] detected [from] this place; I have [fired] a Party to [Connecticut] after them, and [I] [hope] they do not [hide] them [or] from [undecipherable] [undecipherable] —— [There] is no but one man [undecipherable] [last] and [Seven] Men for duty at this [place] [when] the [party] [of] the deserter [Pickering] I am The Honorable Major General Knox, Secretary at War ——