War department, Dec^r 8 1791. Sir The Secretary of War requests that you will immediately forward by the Ambey coute to New York, and which are to go under the charge of Lieu^t John Heth, arms and accoutrements complete, and knapsacks, for seventy men with a proportion of thirty musket ball, cartridge paper &c— to as to furnish each man with two hundred rounds— the powder for the above will be furnished in New York— The one hundred Stand of arms ordered to be put on board the Jane are not to be shipped; But the Secretary directs that you [strikethrough: write] make immediate arrangements, to exchange [strikethrough: cannon] cannon powder, with some powder maker in this city, or any other expeditious mode, that we may able to forward the same to Charleston— I write [Endorsement: Letter from the War Office / Dec 9. 1791 / Directing Arms to be forwarded / by New York]