New York 5^th Feb^y 1799 Sir I have received your favors of the 29^th Ult^o and agreeable to your request, called on M^r Watson for the Cases of Musquets, in his Store, but he declined delivering them, without an Order from the Secretary of War, you will please on Receipt of this to forward me one, and I will attend to the Business, and have them brought to my Store, and examined — I am Sir Your M^ost Ob^t Ser^vt Sam Hodgdon Esq^r for E Stevens [signature] N.B. as Col Stevens has gone to Albany, and expects to be absent for about ten days from this date, I suppose it would be best to let them remain in his Store till he returns — & he will examine them. In mean time you'd please forward the order, for the same — Jn^o F Boorman [Address leaf:] [postal mark] Samuel Hodgson Esq^r Philadelphia [docket, upper right:] Jn^o [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Musquets [undecipherable] forwarding [undecipherable]