[undecipherable: probable reading Geo. Fleming, [undecipherable] 1793] [(319)] [Received from State Dep't. Nov. 24, 1801. R.P.O.401810.] 7/47 Major Sam'l Hodgson, Superintendent of Stores Philadelphia. West. [Received from State Dep't. Nov. 9 804. R.P.O.401310.] West Point, Sept 4^th 1793 Sir, I received your favor of the 3 instant a few days since. I am sorry to find, on overlooking the small arms in the arsenal, that there is not a new Charleville musket here — all of the Charleville make here ^have been used & repaired ones; of course not so fit as new for patterns. In the year 1793 I sent to Albany, by order of General Knox, about 6000 small arms, among which were, I am pretty sure, about 1000 new Charleville arms that had not been in use. M^r Cranch informs me he saw at Springfield a few years ago about 5000 stands of new Charleville arms. I went a few days since to M^r Sweet's furnace at Queensborough, about nine miles from this garrison, and saw some of the ten inch shells he made, from the section I gave Col. Stevens, for English mortars — a copy of which section I delivered to you. By calculation, the shell's weight is [strikethrough: 30] 32 & 7[undecipherable] tenths of a pound — on weighing one at the furnace I found its weight 34 — which is near enough for theory & practice to agree. I will forward to you as soon as I have time to finish my calculation of it, a section of a marine shell, for the two marine mortars of 13 inches & 4 tenths of an inch caliber on the grand battery at New York. I am making the section at the request of Col. Stevens to have some shells cast at Queensborough furnace. I am with great respect, Sir, Your most obed. servant, Geo. Fleming [Major Sam'l Hodgson]