[Wm K. t H K New York 9^th Oct 1789] As I presume you will be at Boston to receive this letter I shall be rather particular in stating to you the objects which require your return as soon as possible, or for you to give such directions respecting them as can be done only by you. The first which occurs is the marching of Lieut. Pratt — He on the 4^th Instant sent to W. Point from Hartford forty men and one Sergeant, and returns nine remaining — In this number he includes four men brought with him from the westward — and four more who were enlisted there and join him in his march — He proposes being at West Point by the 23^d Instant, and wishes strongly to be enabled to march by the 5^th November — He presses the necessity of having Tents provided for his party, and ready for him at the Point — As there none left for use at that place, or at Philadelphia what is to be done? no provision is made for any in your directions to the Office — The Clothing is an object of magnitude — Mr [undecipherable] has given me reason to believe that it will be completed by the 20^th Ins^t excepting the woolen Overalls, white Cloth for which has been through mistake imported only for one pair [undecipherable] man for 450 men — We cannot procure any of the same kinds either here or at Phil[adelphia] — He says he can procure blue [undecipherable], and of as good quality at present, but from an [undecipherable] that it would not be agreeable to you, is at a loss how to proceed with respect to purchasing it— However he has concluded this morning to get it for fear it should be sold soon, and if you should not chuse to have it made up, he will sell it again — this is also an object waiting for your decision — I wish to know whether your intention is that the whole Clothing of the Contracts, the quantity of which you know, should go on by Lieu^t Pratt, excepting that for the two Companies of Artillery at W. Point & Springfield or not — If it is all to go on how many Waggons will be necessary for that purpose? L^t Pratt says a light Waggon is necessary for to take on to W. Point their Camp Kittles, and other articles necessary for the comfort of his recruits — I have wrote him that I Supposed you would not disapprove of the measure, but hoped you would be at Hartford by which he might have your Sanction previous his leaving that place. I informed you in my late letters that Col^o Wadsworth was gone from this City to Hartford where he should remain until November at shortest, that he informed me One thousand or fifteen Hundred Dollars were ready for the purpose of marching these recruits and that on information from me in case you had returned, of their marching he would give [undecipherable] me an order on the Bank here for the amount that might be wanted — I am totally unacquainted with the number of Waggons that the Clothing may require and therefore of the forms of [undecipherable] which this object may require — On this Subject, in all its parts I wish you to be particular in writing as soon as receive this letter provided [a] you should not come on immediately — which is not incompatible with your most urgent business as I would much rather should take place, as I have a great antipathy to public money transactions. A Mr Vigo a principal Inhabitant of Post Vincents came here last Sunday strongly recommended to you by General Harmar as a gentleman who in all cases had [undecipherable] our troops with the utmost friendship, the General prayed at the Same time that an Account which he should present and attested by Major Hamtramck and himself as a just one, might be paid immediately — I went to the Board of Treasury with the Account on Monday amounting to 1164 Penn^a Currency — but the manner in which Gen^l Harmar had written of Mr Vigo which I read to them went for nothing, they said without your having approbated the account they could not receive it, that it was irregularly produced & [undecipherable] they would advance the money — and as Mr Vigo was obliged to leave town on Tuesday, he [undecipherable] taking his account with him not a little [undecipherable] with the circumstance. Mr Duer you know promised to do the needful for Cap^t Bradford's (Draft [undecipherable]) in favor of Mr Miller — He permitted me the week before last to promise M^r Hodgdon who is agent for Mr Miller in this business, that the money should be forwarded [undecipherable] him that week — It that is to say Two Hundred and fifty one Dollars and four Ninetieths — Mr Miller has purchased the remainder of Cap^t B.'s draft in [undecipherable] at Carlisle — Mr Duer however has not yet done it — M^r Hodgdon has wrote that a [undecipherable] was waiting in Phil[adelphia] for the money — this Mr Duer is acquainted, and has promised to transmit the amount tomorrow. M^r Hodgdon transmitted a note for your endorsement, for the 1100 Dollars received at the Bank of Phil[adelphia] — Mr Duer was applied to by one on this occasion, but he Supposed with me that as Mr H. had renewed the Note at the Bank previous to writing on the Subject — and your not having left any directions in your instructions to the Office relative to this business, that it would be unnecessary for the Board to interfere in it — the note is renewed for 45 days from the first of Sept it will become due the 15 or rather 19 of Oct as there are three days grace in these cases — And as he sold the Stores at Carlisle about the 1^st Sept at one Months Credit the Sums arising from these Sales will probably be more than Sufficient to pay the Bank — and this was the mode pointed out in your Letters to Mr H for payment to the Bank, You will have [undecipherable] the letter from Gen^l [undecipherable] enclosed in mine of the [undecipherable] Gen^l Harmon's letter is [undecipherable] on the same subject viz of the impropriety of Militia Officers without [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the Major in [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in case of [undecipherable] [Your affectionately: undecipherable] [signature]