War Office May 31. 1796 Sir, M^r Francis will deliver you to day four small flags of the United States, and two small medicine chests which you will please to have forwarded to West Point with the travelling forge, twelve dressed Sheep Skins, one hundred five and an half Inch Shells, and one hundred and twenty five primed fuzes, heretofore verbally directed to be sent on — I am Sir respectfully Your obed Servant H. [undecipherable] By [undecipherable] Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r [War Office 31 May 1796] [War Office]