War Office September 22^d 1797 Sir, M^r Francis has been requested to purchase a quantity of Medicines Inftruments and Hofpitel Stores for the Troops in Tenefee. As soon as they are deposited in the public Stores Be pleased to deliver them to M^r Hodgdon for transportation to that State — I am Sir with respect Your ob^t Servant H. Jones. Samuel Hodgdon M^r John Harris [Endorsement, written perpendicular to letter:] War Office Sept 22 1797 Measures of Hodgdon have to be form [undecipherable] the necessary [undecipherable] to the State of Tennesee [undecipherable] in the [undecipherable]