[Address leaf notation, lower left:] [undecipherable] I am very anxious to hear of your arrival at Boston on account of the marching of [undecipherable] Brate, with the party and Clothing from West Point to the [undecipherable] and the Clothing with all the [undecipherable] given to M^r [undecipherable] and the [undecipherable] will not [undecipherable] be compleated until the [undecipherable] which by Contract was to be ready by the [undecipherable] Instant — I [undecipherable] [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] dated [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and returns 10 men with a Serjeants, [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and 19 remaining with him at [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] that you [undecipherable] him drawing his [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] — I have not yet written to [undecipherable] for an order for any money on the Banks for the purposes of [undecipherable] marching, which I informed you he had agreed to give me immediately on receiving advice from me of the amount necessary — I shall delay to do it until the arrival of two or three [undecipherable: posts] more from Boston, being in them to receive answers from you thence to my late letters on this subject — Indeed it is [undecipherable] impossible for me to form an opinion [undecipherable] the branches which will be wanted — It will depend much upon the quantity of Clothing that [undecipherable] is to take on, for which object I want your advice — As soon as the Clothing is ready for packing I have requested M^r [undecipherable] to Inspect it and attend to its package — As M^r [undecipherable] [undecipherable] this morning M^r [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] him in this [undecipherable] and to make [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] until it was compleated. The [undecipherable: Pittsburgh] letters [undecipherable] arrived this morning — There are none from any other [undecipherable] than [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for this Office — his are relative to his accounts, which he [undecipherable] forwarded with the vouchers for the same — M^r [undecipherable] had forwarded his accounts [undecipherable] but no [undecipherable] — The Private letter [undecipherable] you from Gen^l [undecipherable] made you [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to the State of [undecipherable] there at [undecipherable] and that Country I [undecipherable] [undecipherable] some time [undecipherable] [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Papers, and that the [undecipherable] the Artillery might for the future be particularly [undecipherable] to him. Col[undecipherable] [undecipherable] arrived on Monday evening last from his Eastern [undecipherable] — And on the early part of next [undecipherable] [undecipherable] out for [undecipherable]. — The City [undecipherable] on the [undecipherable] improvements goes on rapidly — On the ground back of [undecipherable] the Assembly or House of Representatives [undecipherable] is [undecipherable] — The foundation is laid and this day they are [undecipherable] the frame — There have [undecipherable] but a [undecipherable] but two days [undecipherable] they have been under one roof, to [undecipherable] on the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — All the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the Committee for examining the War [undecipherable] that part respecting your particular [undecipherable] the War Office has been ordered [undecipherable] thereunto in the [undecipherable] — that part being considered as [undecipherable] was not [undecipherable] — I have been as [undecipherable] to M^r [undecipherable] as my Leisure and circumstances admitted — he has rented a boat and [undecipherable] calculated to make his way good in [undecipherable] I sent you [undecipherable] Col[undecipherable] a letter from the M[undecipherable] de la [undecipherable] of an old date. The war with the Swedes is [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] commanded the Duke of [undecipherable] — and [undecipherable] Greig have had a Battle, and both [undecipherable] they have had victory in, so much that [undecipherable] has been [undecipherable] at [undecipherable] & Stockholm — [undecipherable] shows is busy [undecipherable] a Swedish [undecipherable] on this [undecipherable] — he has accounts which are altogether Swedish and therefore favourable. I am yours affectionately H. Knox [Gen Knox.] [undecipherable: William Knox, a letter]