Sir West Point May 3^d 1788 Agreeable to your Letter of February 23 1787 — I have paid M^r James & Roman Allen to the Amount of two hundred and twenty eight pounds. And herein enclose his Account of the Articles fold thereof, with the twenty two pounds he had in Pensylvania, makes the sum of two hundred and fifty pounds new York Currency, the Amount of this Account for repairing and [undecipherable: Cleaning] our Arms and stands of Arms for the United States, at four Shillings each — I have been hurrying the Potter here this Spring — And find that there will be a Considerable Amointe of Barrels and hoops wanting to [undecipherable] and Repair the Old Casks — if the Gen^l Should think proper, I wish to begin to do the [undecipherable] by the first of Next month, so as to have them in [undecipherable] all this [undecipherable] from the best Calculation that I can make at [undecipherable], we shall want 2000 hoop poles, and 200 [undecipherable] Coopers Barrels [undecipherable] [undecipherable] The Barrels Can be got at [undecipherable] — and the hoop poles at 45 per hundred — And we [undecipherable] want one Cooper at least to work in the Magazine every day to repair such Casks as may want it, and use [undecipherable] again — I have forwarded by the Bearer M^r [undecipherable], the Returns of Ordnance and Recruits [undecipherable] for the month of April 1788 — I am &c The Honorable — Major Gen^l Knox Secretary at War — Sir West Point May 8^th 1788 — The Store which you directed to be Packed up, in your Letter of April 19^th Are now ready to be Delivered to Captain Bradford [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] Old Cloths in [undecipherable] of which there is none in [undecipherable] — And the 300 Yds of Rope for [undecipherable] for which there is no Rope [undecipherable], as the best we have is [undecipherable] Rope — The Honorable — Major General Knox Secretary at War — I have given Col^l [undecipherable] a [undecipherable] for delivering our [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] of Wood for the use of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to the Sum of two hundred [undecipherable] fifty pounds New York Currency — [undecipherable]