[Copy] [Addressed to:] Major Gen^l St Clair In [consequence] of your letter to me directing [me to purchase] as [many] Horses to transport the supplies of the Army [on] the Campaign I have contracted for and [received] of Messieurs [Alexandria] and James [Platter] one hundred and sixty [pack?] [undecipherable], the cost of which [is]: Tol[d] 9 One hundred and Sixty pack Saddles, Ropes &c: 65 [Halternige], Salt and [Attendance] [undecipherable]: $[undecipherable] [1156·18·9] The above [amounting] to M^r [Perkin's] [charge] and which I have allowed him [the amount of] [three thou]sand [undecipherable] hundred and fifty five Dollars & [undecipherable] [for which] I have drawn a Bill on W^m [Lewis] Esq^r the [companies payable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] which I enclose to you for your Inspection. I have also in consequence of the before nam'd letter and Instructions purchased of a M^r Isaac C Harrison Sixty five Horses for which he is to receive agreeable to my contract with him Eight hundred and Forty Dollars and for which I have also drawn on M^r [Jones]. [The whole of the two purchases] named in this [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] with regard to [undecipherable] I am Sir