[Endorsement: Letter from the War Office / Dec: 9^th 1791 / Directing them to be forwarded / to New York] [Received from State Dep't. Nov. 24 1804. R.P.O. 401810.] [Address panel: undecipherable] War-department, Dec^r 8 1791. Sir The Secretary of War requests that you will immediately forward by the Amboy route to New York, and which are to go under the charge of Lieut. John Heth, arms, and accoutrements complete, and knapsacks, for seventy men with a proportion of tents — musket ball, cartridge paper &c — so as to furnish each man with two hundred [undecipherable] — The powder for the above will be furnish[ed] in New York — The one hundred stand of Arms ordered to be put on board the Juno are not to be shipped; But the Secretary directs that you will make immediate arrange-ment, to exchange ^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 will call on you about 4. o'clock — I am &c your hum^ble Serv^t [undecipherable signature] [undecipherable] H Knox