Sr. Trancines 20 Aug 1792 Capt. Jed Bullock has now taken the remain of the military Stores as pt. Enton delivery weighing Twenty four Tons, to be delivered to Capt. Flemming at West Point ^{Freight of} for which I have agreed to Pay him one and three Quarters of a Dollar pr. Ton on his Return promising a [undecipherable] of their delivery from Capt. Fleming — this I found necessary as I could not have them freighted a low, Except I agreed to pay the money here. This load with the Store Shipped by Capt. Surel in the year 1790 completes the return of Public Stores reported in this State as pt. Returns of the 1^st of July 1789; except two 18 pound Cannons that were Said [undecipherable] delivered to the thrown of Store between the 19^th [undecipherable] of 87. I duly communicated to you; also Twenty-one 24 prams. one hundred and two 12 pound — fifty-one 9 pounds — one 6 pd and Eleven [then] pound round Shell. in all Two hundred and [forty] four, which were lodged in — [undecipherable] at Hall River; but on [undecipherable] the Sutler from [undecipherable] Deposited in that Quarter. in Sept. 1790 I then found the Provincial fund of those Shell had been embezzled, Thirty [undecipherable] of which only remaining; and from the best information I could then obtain, I am inclined to believe the Shell have been carried to the [undecipherable] near [undecipherable], and that M^r. Noden himself was concerned in the affair. Matters thus circumstanced, I have thought it most advisable not to revive the forty-six remaining Shell; There is therein One 18 pound Cannon missing, which was included in said Return, and said to be secured up on Col^o. William Walterhouse, but I have Spent four Days labour in Searching and digging for it in vain. The probability therefore is, that said Cannon was not there deposited as Supposed. I have discovered sundry articles in the Several deposits which were not included in the original Returns, and which have been Shipped with the Store Now to West-point, Viz. Fifteen 12 pound bore One Hundred 18 pound Grape unfused. — a quantity of match ropes — a number of tubes and fuses for Shrapls Shell — One 6 pound Iron Cannon, Twenty- Twenty-one 24 pound — Fifty-two 6 pound — and Twenty four 9 pound Shell — None Some of Musket Cartridges, and one [undecipherable] of damaged powder. The Store have been shipped in as good order as could be expected, considering they were in such a decaying confined State that at the Time I secured them of Maj. Flagg. As the public property of the Deposits in this State of which I had the Charge, [undecipherable] now all Removed to West-Point, (Except the two field pieces mentioned in my letter of 25^th July, in possession of the Artillery C^o. under Col^o. Dav: Pellingham) Subject to your future order, it will be necessary that my Receipt on the Returns. Transmitted to you — the 1^st of July 1787. Should be cancelled by a written one from agt. — as I found it Necessary [strikethrough: agree to] to pay the freight, so I was induced to make other advances [undecipherable] on behalf of the United States, respecting said Stores which I [have] Charge in my acct. Inclosed amounting to and [I] desire be particularly obliged Sir if you will Transmit the one by the mail —