[Docket: C January 30^th 1793 / [undecipherable] from H[.] [undecipherable] / [undecipherable]] [Filed: [undecipherable]] War Department January 30. 1793 Sir The Secretary of War requests that the following articles of Ordnance & Military stores, may be prepared under your direction, & that you will please to have them forwarded to Pittsburgh [undecipherable] Major Craig for the [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] viz— One hundred [undecipherable] musket [undecipherable]— Fifty ditto— [undecipherable] ditto Two hundred [undecipherable] cartridge paper, and [undecipherable] proportion— One [undecipherable] artillery— five [undecipherable]— five ditto— compasses— five spirit— levels. Two Set gauges from 1^st to 24^th— Two leaf Polygon mouths— Two Setts Iron [undecipherable] moulds capped w^th Copper Two Setts Formers for ditto. Twenty rheams Cartridge paper for ditto. Four Copper adges and drivers. Eight brass wire sieves for cannon powder Eight ditto— & ditto for musket ditto Two Lawn sieves for composition with leather bottoms. One hundred & [undecipherable] pounds— Niter [undecipherable] five pounds— Sulphur. Twenty pounds of Cotton yarn for quick match. Five hundred pounds, [undecipherable] match, Two hundred yards Flannel for Cartridges Two hundred pounds— Sheet copper. Two Thousand— [undecipherable] inch Fuzes Two hundred [undecipherable] Sheet Lead five Thousand— rifle flints The Secretary of War requests that you will [undecipherable], please to make a return to him of those on [underline: hand], and those to be [underline: purchased] of the above articles, with an estimate of the cost of the latter. I am, with respect, Sir Your obedient Servant, [undecipherable signature] [undecipherable] Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r.