[rotated administrative notation: Letter from the Hon. the [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Re — / June 14, 1791 / [undecipherable] forwarded [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] forwarded] [Inspector, M^r. Hodgdon &c] M^r. William Knox War department, June 14^th 1791. Sir [to that ] I [undecipherable] the ordinary plea[sure] [undecipherable] a line now you will immediately become a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for [underline: notices], with a kind of [underline: [undecipherable: fair cord?]] a bit lighter than the halter rope, for [underline: girths] being [undecipherable] wanted to complete this same number of [them?] [saddles?] to be made at [undecipherable: Pittsburg?], as have been [already?] first forwarded to that place [undecipherable] [undecipherable] The several articles [undecipherable] [undecipherable] you will please to forward them with all dispatch to Fort Pitt. The Secretary of War also requests that you engage a waggon to convey the baggage of Captain Beatty's recruits from Trenton to Fort Pitt. The waggon to be at Trenton the 21^st instant on Tuesday and to remain there until Beatty arrives from New Brunswick — I am Your very humble Serv[ant] [signature] M^r. W^m. Knox — for Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r. P.S. The [undecipherable] proposes to have the [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] set of [undecipherable] bound with white [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] for distinction — for the [undecipherable] not yet determined [undecipherable] leave for your [undecipherable] on [the] subject