War Department May 5^th 1794 Sir, The Secretary of War requests that you will please to have packed up and transported by water the following Suits of Infantry Clothing. For Capt Russell Bissell at Middletown Connecticut addressed to Chauncy Whittlesey Esq the contractor Fifty Suits — 4 — 2 — 44 For capt. Cornelius Lyman at Springfield in Massachusetts addressed to Chauncy Whittlesey Esq at Middletown to be forwarded — Forty Suits — 2 — 2 — 36 6 — 4 — 80 also Fifty Knapsacks for Bissell Forty ditto — For Lyman I am Sir with Esteem, Your Obed. Sev^t John Stagg Jun^r Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r. [Letter from War Office Office 5 May 1794 Clothing to the order of Captain Bissell & Lyman]