[Docket: Letter / from Capt Armstrong dated / December 24: 1791 —] [Received [undecipherable]] [Address: [undecipherable] Hodgdon Esq [undecipherable] / For at Washington] Fort Hamilton 24 December 1791 Sir By Captain Story I received a letter from the General directing me to forward to Fort Jefferson certain Articles of Cloathing as mentioned in a former letter from you. They were taken forward by M^r Mahelick who I furnished with two Horses and a Supply of Indian Corn. M^r Kitchel was here a few days Since and informed me he did not intend being gone from any man. My buildings being now completed and having found a Stray Horse that will answer the purpose of Supplying the Garrison with Wood I have no further use for the three you will receive them by the [undecipherable] and as soon as M^r Wood has finished the [undecipherable] & made two or three Doors, which will be in a few days he shall be sent in also. He should [undecipherable] with Captains Story, had me not unfortunately injured the Matter of the Flat in launching her and untill Captain Story begins I cannot take the [undecipherable] of the Water to make the necessary repairs & I have no person to whom I can intrust that business but himself. Being of opinion that the [undecipherable] and by the [undecipherable] Commissary is to the [undecipherable] and the necessity of them being [undecipherable] in the [undecipherable] Garrison [undecipherable] to request, you will forward a [undecipherable] by the first opportunity. There Still remains at Fort Washington a quantity of My Company Cloathing it is packed in Barks which I wish to open myself: would it not be in your power to send it with some more fine Baggage Conveyance, in a Waggon the [undecipherable] I am now [undecipherable] & M^r [undecipherable] Superintendent [undecipherable] putting [undecipherable] in the Waggon I want also [undecipherable] hundred files [undecipherable] I cannot do without them & if I had twelve [undecipherable] of Window Glass [undecipherable] with some more fine Paper. I would give you no further trouble this is the last Sheet I have left — I want [undecipherable] Book also — Your hble your Ob[edient] Ser[van]t John Armstrong Capt [undecipherable] U.S. [[undecipherable] Hodgdon Esq]