[Docket, upper right, written at angle: [undecipherable: Captain?] [undecipherable] / [undecipherable]] [Circular archival stamp: Received from State [undecipherable] B.F.C. Nov [undecipherable]] Samuel Hodgdon Esq. Superintendent Ordnance and Military Stores Now Philadelphia Springfield August 7. 1798 Sir Inclosed is the Return of Stores received and delivered from the first of April to last of June and the receipts for Stores delivered. the fifty boxes for the Muskets will be finished next week, I shall have the thousand Muskets well cleand and packed up fit for transportation; all the Carriages that are in the Store want to be over-hald, the Bands of the hub, are loose and must be made Smaller, and some of the boxes must be taken out that the crack of the hubs may be closed by driving on the Bands it tight; the old Carriages wants to be painted Please to informe me, if I may have them repaired and put in good order. for it would take Some time when ever they are to be sind- of. the vessel that had the Stores on board for Portland which was the last that was ordered on, Sailed last week. I am Sir With respect your obedient Servant John Bryants D. C. M. Stores Samuel Hodgdon Esq. Sup.^t of O. & M. Stores.