War Department; Feb. 15^th 1794. Sir. You will please to forward immediately, to Pittsburg for the use of the army under General Wayne, one hundred barrels of the best proof musket and rifle powder, in equal proportions, and also twenty tons of lead and musket ball. As to the transportation of the clothing for the year 1794, at this time, I am apprehensive, that if it be forwarded in small parcels, and at distant periods that it may be liable to accidents, especially as it may not be proper to deliver it, until the next autumn as the troops did not receive their new clothing for the [undecipherable] 1793, until deep in the month of November, an Dec[undecipherable] I am Sir, Your most obed. Serv^t. H Knox Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r. [address leaf: War Department / Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r]