New york 8^br 3^d 1793 a mine of the 28. I give you all the information relative to Brig^r Putts that was then in my power to give you — I have not yet heard any thing of Batt from West Point, from which circumstance, it is not in my power to Specify to Hodgdon the exact time it would be necessary to be at Brunswick — Would it not have been better, for W. Hay who did the business for Major [undecipherable] satisfactorily, to have transported the Baggage and Clothing from Brunswick to Trenton Ferry and for the Wagons engag'd by Hodgdon to take from thence? — Capt. Carrice says his Wagons will not be Sufficient for the Clothing however we shall be taken — He spoke about Sending the Clothing. To complete each being enclosed in a Box is impossible to force the Butts without injuring them — Capt. Carrice will reach West Point this evening or tomorrow morning by Last Boats, he does thanks from Paulsend, Leaving Hartford untill last Saturday that he will get perfectly equipp'd and leave the points untill tuesday next. I wrote him yesterday by Price — that it would be best to try Sloma [undecipherable] a [undecipherable] from Napsy who I had just to the Point) and take him on to the Frontiers — I wrote you respecting this man and waited your Direction respecting him — also gave an order on Price for Musket Cartridge paper for Major Doughty which he has again written for, it was to have gone on by Cap^t. Bradford from Carlisle but there was none there — the order also for Parish which he never did — The Clothing will be all packed by tomorrow night, and the two Boats will be ready [Missing Page/s — Some or all of the pages of this file are wholly or in part missing, and we have not been able to locate a more complete copy of the document.] Harmar relative to the proportions of Artillery and Infantry which are to go on. I find nothing in any letters to him which will serve as a guide in the business — M^r. Knox and myself have therefore decided from the Clothing which the troops have received, particularly those taken on by Cap^t. Bradford, that Seventy five Suits of Artillery and [strikethrough: four] three hundred and twenty five of Infantry would be the proper proportions, allowing a proportionate number of Suits for Servants, Corporals, and Drummers [undecipherable] Gen. Harmar writes of the 1^st Inc[undecipherable]. — No to by yet. Th[ese] look doubtful — Also a letter same date from Gen. Harmar which I [undecipherable] you wholes as I am really in too much pain to make any Extracts — M^r. Martin writes from Long Island 30^th Sept — He Says Fever is continued in S. Carolina — and that he [undecipherable] has had an action with the Chickamauga's — in which he with [undecipherable] men defeated them. — The before yesterday I took a new Cold in my head and the fullness is now greater and the pain more Sever than before. I am closely confined. Physicking, Fomenting and poulticing — M^r. Queen is at M^r. Knox's I am yours Sincerely W. Ham[undecipherable]