[Illegible text. Some or all of the pages of this file are wholly or in part illegible.] time to time direct. I enclosed you, some time since, extracts of letters, from Colonel Butler, dated the 8^th and 15^th April last. It is necessary I should be informed, whether you intend, to remove the officers, from the places, he has fixed on for recruiting, before money and cloathing can be transmitted to them. Will it be proper to direct, the recruits raised by Captain Gibson, at Princeton, to join Lieutenant Col. Butler? They exceed a company, I am Sir with great respect your obedient servant [undecipherable] [Major General A. Hamilton.]