West P^nt 8 Sept^r 1786 I wrote you on 20 August respecting [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] ting Clothing — If you [should] think [it] Proper to give me an Order I Can [undecipherable: safely] them with all the Articles [they] [undecipherable] both Shoes, [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] out of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of the Old Clothing in the [Store?] — On the Night of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] from the Connecticut [undecipherable: recruit deserted], and a[nother] Night one from the New [undecipherable: Jersey] [undecipherable], [I have] [just] [Parties] [after] them, and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] the first one am in hopes [they will] [undecipherable] [Thank] your most The Honorable Major Gen Knox      Your H[u]m. Serv^t Secretary at War — --- Sir      West Point 8^th Sept^r 1786 Agreeable to Contract [made] with M^r [undecipherable: James] [undecipherable: Monroe], I Certify That the Said James [undecipherable: Monroe] has Clain[ed] Two hundred and twenty Seven Stands of [Arms] for the United States at eighteen [Ninety] [undecipherable] of a [Dollar] each and is intitled to receive the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] pounds [undecipherable] pence for the Same at the [New] [York] or New York in two days after the Certificate [is] Presented, which makes up the Number of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] two hundred and twenty seven which to be [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — I am Sir The Honorable Major Gen Knox Sec[retary] at War