Sir I have the honor to inform you of my arrivae here with the company of Artilery of Eng^rs Recruited by Capt. Irvine, without the loss of a man, either by sickness or Desertion. M^r Mumerigr reached Reading this Evening, to whom I have given up the command of the company. The number of men effective in the company 52, with the noncommissioned officers 1 man indisposed, [strikethrough: and] 2 deserters with Brown confined for mutiny whom I thought it necessary to bring with me, from the probability of their being ordered, to Philadelphia for trial. I am Sir with respect your Hble Serv^t Cwoolstonerch Reading 24.^th March 99. [Reading March 24. 1799] [C. Woolstonecraft] [R. March 27.] [Free] [Rect. Hanna] Honorble J. M^cHenry Esq^r Secretary at War Philadelphia [Macpherson Barr—]