West Point 9^th July 1787 I have forwarded by the Mason M^r Dunnick the returns of Ordnance and Quarter Master Store for the Month of January 1787 — Enclos'd is an account of the Wood furnished the Garrison which became due before the 1^st Instant, and I have drawn an Order on you for the same in favour of M^r Dunnick — There is also enclos'd an account of subsisting [undecipherable] for M^r [undecipherable] to the amount of thirty four pounds ten shillings, agreeable to your Letter of December 9, 1786 — M^r Moore is now Cleaning the 18 Pound Carbines at your direction, and will take his pay in the Rations he is furnished by you — And if you think proper, he may take what is due to him for that from the troops, for the Month of June, July, August & September 1786 Amounting to [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] — I have drawn more Orders on you for the [undecipherable] for the favour of M^r Dunnick. One is from [undecipherable] to April 12, the Other is from April 14 to July 5 1787 inclusive — which Accounts are Lodg'd in the [undecipherable] Store [undecipherable] and are [undecipherable]. The other is from [undecipherable] to December 30 1787 inclusive, and was the date by M^r Dunnick at December [undecipherable] — It is [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] objeck to the Council, and I [undecipherable] to pay them every Quarter. I have been oblig'd to borrow the money to pay the [undecipherable] of L^t Co[undecipherable], [undecipherable] he refus'd [undecipherable] to be very Glad — I have procur'd a new Clothing [undecipherable] at the [undecipherable] at the rate of [undecipherable] Continuing of [undecipherable] 15 Cask. [undecipherable] both bad as there was no Letter [undecipherable] with them. I have not seen them yet — [undecipherable] to inform me how they are to be offer'd — When the Soldiers [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] at Superintendence, [undecipherable] from the Council and I am inform'd that M^r Brown has got a Set of [undecipherable] that he was [undecipherable], but I do not know the price. If you think proper to have them purchas'd I will find and for what they will Cost. [undecipherable] you know — Also, when the [undecipherable] Commence we shall want a hundred or two [undecipherable] Casks, and a great many of the 1^st Casks will be finish'd [undecipherable]. [undecipherable] is against this, though [undecipherable] — I believe that the Cook cannot [undecipherable] make them worth the [undecipherable] which will not [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] if [undecipherable] Could have to teach them [undecipherable] — Agreeable to your Letter of [undecipherable] & 15, I have drawn [undecipherable] --- West Point July 9^th 1787 Certain [undecipherable] inform'd me that you have a Set of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that you cannot [undecipherable]. I therefore write to [undecipherable] requesting at you when M^r [undecipherable] who has deserted me to ask you the price of them — If you have not dispos'd of them, I must thank you to inform me how long they have been in Use, and what will be the lowest price you will ask for them — But if you should have sold them, please to inform me where I can get a New Set [undecipherable], and what will be the price of them — Henry [undecipherable] Esq^r E: Goffan — West Point 6 January 1787 — S^r I have receiv'd yours of the [undecipherable], as I have wrote to the [undecipherable]. But the aid not yet [undecipherable] what to [undecipherable] for the Stores. But that he should be here in a short [undecipherable] day himself, but his him it Could as yet — I have not as yet been able to make an estimate of what the Casks will Cost. All I have not seen any [undecipherable] that would [undecipherable] them to work, and [undecipherable] wrote to [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] to give him to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] a [undecipherable] or a month. But the Casks will Cost about [undecipherable] Shilling — I have sent by the Mason M^r [undecipherable] the Returns of Ordnance and Quarter Master Stores for the Month of February 1787 — M^r [undecipherable] having requested a permission to go to New York to [undecipherable] in his [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] after his [undecipherable] [undecipherable] as there is not [undecipherable] to be done at [undecipherable] I have given him permission for that time of [undecipherable] — As the [undecipherable] is now beginning to break up I expect to send down [undecipherable] [undecipherable] is very [undecipherable] — [signature] The Honorable [undecipherable] [undecipherable] —