[War Office 20^th July, 1797. Cannon and Stores to be sent to Pittsburgh for [undecipherable]. Received from [undecipherable] Dept.] War Office, July 28^th 1797. Sir. I request that you will be pleased to take order, to have forwarded, with all possible dispatch, to Pittsburgh to Major Isaac Craig, to be by him transported from thence to Fort Massac, to the address of the commanding officer, the following Ordnance, and Military Stores — viz From Fort Mifflin. Three Brass Nine pounders, with garrison carriages, and imple- ments, complete. From Philadelphia — Three hundred Shot for ditto. Three hundred paper cartridges. Three hundred flannel ditto. Three hundred primed tubes. — Two Brass 5½ Inch Howitzers, with their carriages and imple- ments, complete. One hundred case shot fixed. — Fifty........ do- do- unfixed. Two hundred tubes for ditto (Say 6 pounders) — One hundred 5½ Inch Shells. — One hundred primed Fuzes Thirty Six Sticks portfire. — Six portfire stocks. — Six lint-Stocks. Six tube boxes. — Six dressed Sheep Skins. — Six gunners horns. Four --o--- belts. Fifty pounds slow match. [undecipherable] From Carlisle. One hundred &fourteen grape shot unfixed. Twenty eight........ case shot " ". From Pittsburg. Fifty strap'd shot, unfixed. Twelve Barrels powder (cannon.) Five thousand Musket cartridges. I am Sir, respectfully, Your obed^t Serv^t James McHenry Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r