West Point 8^th Sep^tr 1786 I wrote you on 25 August respecting [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Cloathing — If you Should think proper to give me an Order I Can [undecipherable] then with all the Articles [undecipherable] [undecipherable], Shoes, Buckskin & Stockn[undecipherable] [undecipherable] Can [undecipherable] out of Some of the Old Cloathing in [undecipherable] — On the Night of [undecipherable] Inst. [undecipherable] [undecipherable], [undecipherable] the Connecticut recruits Departed, and [undecipherable] Night one from the New Jersey [undecipherable], [undecipherable] [undecipherable] just [undecipherable] off [undecipherable] them, and [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable] first [undecipherable] am in hopes [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — I am Your most [undecipherable] H[undecipherable] [undecipherable] Serv^t the Honnoble Majr Gen Knox Secretary at War — Sir West Point 8 Jul 1786 Agreeable to Contract made with M^r James Monroe, I Certify that the Said James Monroe [undecipherable] Claim[undecipherable] 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] & fourteen [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in New York in two Days after the Certificate Presented, which makes up the Number of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] two hundred and twenty Seven [undecipherable] to be [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — I am Sir [undecipherable] The Honnoble Majr Gen Knox Sec^ty at War