[Cover endorsements, rotated:] War Dep^t [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] &c — charge of [undecipherable] — [Stamp: Received from State Dep't Nov. [undecipherable] R.P.O 401810.] [76] [Stamp: Received from State Dep't Nov. [undecipherable] R.P.O 401810.] War Department, August 6^th 1794. Sir, The Secretary of War has received your letter of yesterday; and directs me to inform you, that the military Stores ordered to be furnished for the fortifications on the Sea Coast, agreeably to the return of the 25^th ultimo, were intended as an immediate supply for the cannon already at the respective stations, designated in the column "Grand Total", excepting otherwise expressed in the column of "Remarks" —— At the following places there are officers already stationed, to whom you will please to address any supplies which you may forward — to wit —— Portsmouth N.H. — to — Lieut John Parker Hale — Salem ————————— Capt Frederick Frye. Boston ——————— — Lieut Nehemiah Freeman. Newport —————— — Capt William Littlefield New London — — — — Capt Decius Wadsworth New York — — — — — Capt Alexander Thompson. Baltimore — — — — — Capt James Bruff. Norfolk ——————— Capt Nicholas Hariman Capt Richard Scott Blackburn Wilmington. N. Carolina — Capt Griffith J. McRea — Charleston. S.C — Capt Michael Kalteisen. Savannah —— Lieut Benjamin Wall ^a Ensign Garret Voorhies S^t Mary's —— Lieut Abimael Youngs Nicoll. An officer will be arranged to each of the vacant places, and you notified thereof — For your information I enclose you the last Returns of the Ordnance and Military Stores of the United States at the following places — Springfield ——— for the month of June 1794. Fort [undecipherable: possibly Rinslaw] &c., — — do — do — do — Albany ——— [undecipherable] return from [undecipherable] West Point — [undecipherable: note regarding absence of return] August 1793. New London — — — [undecipherable] — June 1794 Virginia — Manchester — — — [undecipherable] 1794 [undecipherable] I am M^r, respectfully, Your ob^t Ser^t. [undecipherable] Stagg Jun [undecipherable] Samuel Hodgdon Eq^r