[Wrapper: [undecipherable: Thompson?] [undecipherable] / [undecipherable: 10]^th of July / 1794; circled filing number (6); Received stamp] New London July 10^th 1794 I have desired to receive an answer to my letter to one of the 19^th of last month that I might know [undecipherable: whether] the [undecipherable: buildings] [undecipherable: wanting] at this [undecipherable: place] to hold the [undecipherable: arms] should be erected at [undecipherable: the] Public expense or not — [undecipherable: having] sometimes and not [undecipherable: being] favored with an answer [undecipherable: engaged] a [undecipherable: person] to [undecipherable: build] a large and [undecipherable: commodious] [undecipherable: store] for the [undecipherable: purpose] [undecipherable] in [undecipherable: all, or out, fully] far [undecipherable: advanced]. [undecipherable: Suffice] to be in [undecipherable: possession] of the [undecipherable] here in [undecipherable: six] months. In the mean time the [undecipherable] have too much [undecipherable: regard] to [undecipherable] this [undecipherable] the [undecipherable: benefits] of [undecipherable: his] [undecipherable: houses] in [undecipherable: which] they are [undecipherable: appointed] I not [undecipherable: bring] in any, [undecipherable: however] to [undecipherable: become] these which were [undecipherable: better] — we are [undecipherable: attentive] [undecipherable: brought] them from [undecipherable: resting] [undecipherable: while] they can be removed. [undecipherable: I have forwarded] [undecipherable: now] a [undecipherable: Return] of the [undecipherable: stores] which have [undecipherable: passed through] the hands of [undecipherable] [undecipherable: provisions] in the [undecipherable: month] of [undecipherable: June] — [undecipherable: going] to it in Philadelphia [undecipherable] his and of this [undecipherable] in [undecipherable: June] [undecipherable: he] will be in my power to give you a more [undecipherable: particular] [undecipherable: account] of [undecipherable: his] situation of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable: Arriving] at [undecipherable: his] [undecipherable: home] [undecipherable: have the honor to] [undecipherable: be] [undecipherable: your most obedient] [undecipherable: humble Servant] Samuel Hodgdon [undecipherable: requires] [undecipherable: signature]