c/o Henry Knox Esq.- 25th August 790. Your favr of 11th Inst. has been recd. & agreeable to your Directions, I have Loaded Capt. James Sweets Packett with ^T 27. ^G. 11. ^q 3. ^ [stricken u?] 0 of Military Stores, to be delivered at West Point for Two Dollars per Ton, but I have Contracted with him to Transport the Remainder of the Stores for One & Three Quarters of a Dollar.
I find it will be Necessary that I should be furnished with One hundred Dollars to be accounted for, for the purpose of Defraying the Expences of Collecting & Delivering the Stores at the Landg - this is the more Necessary as the Persons I Employ are in want of their Pay - I have the Honor to be with Esteem Sr. your Obed. Humle Serv Jerh Olney N.S. Capt. Sweet’s Bill of Lading for the above insertd Stores, is enclosed.
The Secretary at War New York -