[H Knox 28^th Oct 1788 — [undecipherable]] W. H. New York 28^th Oct 1788 I rec'd your favors from [undecipherable] of the 19 & 25 Inst which are to be just as a rather different — with respect to the prospects they [undecipherable] of your returning — you will endeavor to do as well as we can without you a little longer. — In the first place I am to inform you that Cap Knox arrived here this morning and not before, coming to contrary winds from N. Haven. He brought me in gold $150 lawful Money & $[undecipherable] bobs also a draft on P O Platt Esq^r for 1000 dollars more. In consequence of your letter of the 25^th M^r [undecipherable: Stags?] began yesterday Morning to Inspect and Assist in packing the Clothing he informs me that [he] believes that is the Inspection and packing 200 Suits will be probably [undecipherable] on [undecipherable] evening, that 25 Boxes with 10 complete Suits in a Box will be the least number, they having proved this by packing yesterday ninety-six Suits in Six boxes — they are all of the following dimensions       Height — 2 feet 2 Inches       Width — 3 feet [undecipherable]       Length — 4 feet 6 Inches — I have this morning written to [undecipherable: Hodgdon?] to engage, conditionally with respect to the time of their being at Brunswick, Six or as many Waggons as the 25 Boxes would require, [undecipherable] them particularly the dimensions and that ½ would be paid at [undecipherable] on their departure to [undecipherable] and the other parts on their return — That I should write him again tomorrow or next day respecting the exact time to [undecipherable] to accompany the Waggons [undecipherable] be at [undecipherable] or that time I hope to hear from D^r [undecipherable: Pratt?] who in consequence of your letter of the 19^th I had directed by two letters of the same tenor & date one by land the other by water to repair with his party to Brunswick without loss of time and in passing his City to come on shore that he might have an interview with you — and that it would be more proper that the Clothing should go by another Vessel to Brunswick as it [undecipherable] the depletion of his men, to remain on board with his Vessel to take the said Clothing on Board — I wrote this letter to [undecipherable: Pratt?] on Saturday last the 25^th which went by water the same day and the duplicate yesterday morning by post so that he must be in possession of one or both — but [undecipherable: Pruce?] tells me [undecipherable: Pratt?] is not more than at W. Point this day in consequence of having received a letter from you desiring him to wait at Hartford, which he did until he rec'd the letter by [undecipherable: Pruce?] from you, with counter directions — I close this letter — I suppose on Friday or Saturday the clothing with ten Common Tents which are making here (there being none fit for service at [undecipherable] W. Point or this place) will be under way for Brunswick, and that by the same or Sunday [undecipherable: Pratt?] and party may be there also — That by Monday or Tuesday the 3^d [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] they may be Inspected — Mustered and Marched for the Frontier, this is my wish that this may be accomplished, and think as the main chance is arrived that all will depend on [undecipherable: Pratt's?] movements which in general are very exact and rather quick — I shall govern myself with respect to the advances as you have directed, altho. [undecipherable: Pratt?] wants some little advances in addition — I [undecipherable] your orders to make them, it would be more [undecipherable] than [undecipherable] conduct — who made up he says unavoidable of some of the money he had for his own use — and hopes the general will not disapprove the measure. I wrote Gen. Harmar yesterday (using the last regular post this year to F [undecipherable: Pitt?]) that the Clothing & [undecipherable: Pratts?] party would leave Brunswick about the 5^th Nov. This is the 1^st day since the 17 [undecipherable] that from I have walked to the Office. I have a face like a pudding — and more pain than I have known what to do with — I have come in a Court for three days past but cant afford it any more, and [undecipherable] I think it indispensable to be at the Office as M^r [undecipherable] must be abroad for several days to come — I am sure I have got cold this day as my face is swelling while I am writing the pain however [undecipherable] the more it [undecipherable] — It might be caused by teeth on the front instance I thought to & went to [undecipherable: Greenwood?] in the evening but the Gums were so [undecipherable] — he could not operate — and [undecipherable] it has been ever since. [Your?] Humbly Yours [undecipherable]