Thanks for the Supplies

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Westpoint. Dec 13^th 1796. Sir, I received yesterday your letter of the 7^th Inst^o containing the Invoice of Stores to Mess^rs Manning and Co of New York to be forwarded to this post; receive my thanks Sir, for your readiness to Send the Supplies necessary to the troops, they will be wellcome, for many of our poor Soldiers are Suffering for want of Clothes – if you have not received and Sent to this Garrison the articles which I had requested you would forward to me with the clothing, I wish you would not Send them, for I am under the expectation of passing thro' Philad^a on my way to Pittsburg – Respectfully I am Sir, your obed^t. Serv^t Step. Rochefontaine Lt Col. comd. of y^e corps of art^e & Eng^rs [Addressed to: Sam^t. Hodgdon – Esq^re / Superintendent of Military Stores / Philad^a] [Docket, upper right: from Rochefontaine / the 13 / December / 1796]

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After receiving the letter with the invoice of stores to be forwarded to West Point by the contractor, Manning & Co. of New York, Rochefontaine thanks Hodgdon for sending supplies to the poor soldiers suffering from want of clothing. The additional articles required by Rochefontaine need not be sent since he can get them when he is in Philadelphia on his way to Pittsburgh.