[Docketing, top right: Colo. [undecipherable] [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] 99 — / Rec'd 5^th] Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r. Philadelphia [seal] New York 4 June 1799 Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r. Sir, I have received your fav^r of the 29^th & 31^st Ult^o — one inclosing draft for $74.57/00 is pass'd to your Credit — with Respect to public Clothing & Stores mentioned in my last, I have to repeat it, as being necessary I be furnished with those articles, and Subjoin a list of them — the Gen^l. has enjoined it on me to request your attention to this business, that they may be in Readiness to deliver him [undecipherable] his order. — I would observe to you that when Cap^t. [undecipherable] [undecipherable]s Companys were ordered to march from [undecipherable] Jay to [undecipherable] Pennsylvania to Quell the Riot there, I had not a musquet Cartridge to deliver them, I was under the necessity of borrowing from this State, three thousand, for their use — this will show to You (in some degree) the Propriety of my request I am Sir Your M^ost H^ble [undecipherable] B.B. Return of Public Stores that may be Wanted in this Department 20 Tents 2 Horrman's do. 1 Markee 50 Camp Kettles 100 Knapsacks 100 Haversacks 100 Canteens 15 Bell Tents for [undecipherable] 5000 Musquet Cartridges of a suitable Calliper 500 Cartridge Boxes 500 Bayonet Belts 6 Drums 6 Fifes & Drum furniture 300 Soldiers Shirts, & a Proportion of Non Commiss^d Officers Ditto — 50 Blankets, & such Other articles as allowed for the army on a small Scale; by hav[ing] those articles on hand, I should not disappoint the Gen^l. when his orders came forward. — [signature]