[Docketing, upper right: No from [undecipherable] Atton / Richard [undecipherable] [undecipherable] / No Copy [undecipherable] 97 — / Col [undecipherable] to have [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] [undecipherable] at hand [undecipherable]] Samuel Hodgdon Esquire Superintendent of Military Stores Philadelphia [War Office] Tarborough N^r December 3^d. 1796 Sir Agreeble to your Letter of the 20^th of October— I now have it in my power to acknowledge the receipt of the Public Cloathing— Arms Accoutrements & Camp Equipage contained in the Invoice you enclosed to me of that date— they came to Land yesterday in the afternoon— in good order— I am Sir Your Humble Servant [undecipherable] Richard— Capt^t [undecipherable] Sub Legion Samuel Hodgdon Esquire