War Office Feby 28. 1798 Brass Howitzers to be del^d Capt. Tho^s Truxton War Office 28^th February 1798 Sir, Be pleased to deliver to Captain Thomas Truxton Ten brass three pound howitzers for the frigate Constellation James McHenry Samuel [undecipherable: Hodgson] [left margin:] M^r John Harris Having purchased twenty howitzers from M^r King, as per return made to Jacob Francis [undecipherable] Purveyor of Public Supplies, by order of the Sec^y of war, & having caused ten to be delivered to M^r Harris agreeable to his order, the remaining ten, has been sent to, and received on board the Frigate Constellation, laying in the harbour of Baltimore. Philadelphia 13 March 1798. Thomas Truxton