176 Philadelphia 6^th August 1798 Sir Enclosed, you have an order on Major Bedinger, Public Store Keeper at Sheppards Town for one Horsemans, and six Common tents for the use of the men under your command — I wrote you respecting the Public Horse in your possession on the 28 ultimo, which I hope, has got to hand — Sam Sir Your Most Obedient Servant Samuel Hodgdon Lieu^t Peter Shoemaker — Philadelphia 6^th August 1798 Sir I believe you received the six hundred and forty Boxes of Gun Powder purchased by the Secretary of the Treasury of M^r Delafield in New York — If I am right in this conjecture I wish you would forward a receipt for it — particularly specifying the quantity and kinds, and that it had stood the usual proof, this is necessary to close the Books in the Treasury for the purchase — I shall also be obliged, by your informing me where the whole is stored at present, and under whose immediate direction it now remains — An order has been sent on for three hundred Barrels of Cannon Powder to be sent here, is it complied with, or how stands the business — Sam Sir Your Most Obedt Servant Samuel Hodgdon [R] Colonel E. Stevens