[undecipherable] Sir Springfield Sept 23 1795 I received your letter of 7 instant. and very sorry you should think that that it was inattentive to your orders respecting the Armourers [undecipherable: Risings]. I must know that I proceeded to [undecipherable] in repairing the Armourers shop and [undecipherable: barrecks] as far as was in my power. I could not take the Carpenters and [undecipherable]wrights from the Carriage works when [undecipherable] the [undecipherable: Blacksmiths] as I have [undecipherable: done that] I presume I should be censured by the Secretary of War and you for taking the [undecipherable] from there works when [undecipherable] had just orders from [undecipherable] the Armouring of the [undecipherable: Artillery]. I [undecipherable] the Armourers shop [undecipherable] as I proceeded your orders inspecting the Buildings, and [undecipherable] of the Building [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]. I have but one man that [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]. I [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the Public Buildings [undecipherable] [undecipherable] at work on the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable: respectable] [undecipherable] I am Sir your [undecipherable: obedient] Servant [undecipherable: Saml Hodgdon] E[sq?] John Bryant [undecipherable: Superintendent] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable: Whittelsey]