[Endorsement, upper right: [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] / 1791] [Stamp: Received / Nov [undecipherable] 1791 / R.E.F.O. 10/30.16] [Address side, left margin notations: answd / sent / [undecipherable] / [undecipherable]] [Address: Samuel Hodgdon Esq^re / [undecipherable] / Fort Washington] [seal] Fort Hamilton 4^th Decemb^r 1791 Sir Your two letters of the 2^d Inst were handed me by M^r Hartshorn with some of the articles hereto for [undecipherable] which you had sent me one or more Nail Gimbletts one at least will be necessary in making the Doors &c. I am Sorry so great a mistake was made in forwarding the Cloathing brought by the Pack Horses, those Bundles contains the Summer Cloathing of my company, the Shirts and Shoes Invented are contained in four Casks & one Box in M^r [undecipherable: Briths?] Store— I Shall request the General to let me have Shirts & Shoes out of those in Store here & have them returned out of mine at Fort Washington— Both M^r [undecipherable] & Hartshorn are to blame for this mistake— I send you by the Return of the Pack horses One Anvil— two Files— two Faggots of Nail rods— twenty Gross— Six [undecipherable]— two Casks of Nails— and twenty pairs of Horsemens Boots— which was all that remained in Store— I enclose you [undecipherable] More Recs— and I Shall use some of the Nails that remain of both Sizes— & for the Cloathing [undecipherable] in your letter, the General [undecipherable] did nothing to me on this Subject, indeed I will not meddle with it without his particular direction— from this [undecipherable: expression?] of one of the Bundles they have been opened. & [undecipherable] Shirts & Shoes to be sent As to the Carpenters mentioned in your letter. Wood is the only man entitled to this appellation, his I must believe a Joiner after the [undecipherable] left is finished— in order to Fix Shutters to the Embrasures, this being complicated he shall be kept in— I have yet to hear [undecipherable] for three houses— cannot therefore [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] for a time— I thank you for your promised attention to accommodate the Garrison with many articles, [undecipherable] as to make the greatest comforts, it will probably be a place of [undecipherable] with therefore that [undecipherable] officers and soldiers comforts may be as comfortable as possible— can you not [undecipherable] better [undecipherable] supply of Wing Door [undecipherable]— [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable]— Will you send me a Cider Book— I am Sir your Ob. Ser. [undecipherable signature] Col R. [undecipherable] Samuel Hodgdon Esq^re