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[endorsement: The Secretary of War to Samuel Hodgdon Esq. Philadelphia] [stamp: No. [undecipherable] R.G.O. No.[undecipherable]] [231] Samuel Hodgdon Esq. [72] [172] War Department [undecipherable] Sir The Secretary of War requests that you will please immediately to order Captain [strikethrough: Fleming] to forward from West Point, with all possible dispatch, to this City to your Address, Two Thousand Five hundred Stand of Arms, fit for immediate Service; and that, if he shal[l] not have the supply in readiness at [undecipherable], he be directed to make up the deficien[cy from] those at Albany in charge of Capt[ain undecipherable] The Secretary requests that the[y] may be sent from West Point to New Yo[rk] to the care of Captain Sedam, at Governors Island, and that he be requested to have them transported from thence by the Amboy Route to Philadelphia. With great respect, I am Sir, your ob'd Serv't [undecipherable: signature] Samuel Hodgdon Esq.

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Hodgdon is directed to immediately order Capt. Fleming to forward from West Point to Philadelphia 2,500 stands of arms fit for immediate service. If that supply is not in readiness at West Point, the deficiency should be made up from those at Albany. They should be sent from West Point to Capt. Sedam at Governors Island at New York and from there via the Amboy route to Philadelphia.