New York 29 June 1799 Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r Sir Your favor of yesterdays date is before me, and in answer [strikethrough: thereto], I would observe that you had better write the Store Keeper at Albany to know of him by whose order he delivered those [undecipherable] Arms, and to whom, This will set the business in a proper Train, so as to enable you to come at them — They have been lent & dispersed in the Northern &Western parts of this State — The Governor knows nothing of them, I told him that they would be called for by the U States if that it was requisite they should be collected together — he requested me to do it, but I declined as I have so much other business in my hands I could not well attend to it — I am with Esteem, [undecipherable] W^m [undecipherable] for G^en Beevers A. Sands [address leaf: Samuel Hodgdon Esquire / War Office / Philadelphia / to be sent to the care of / [undecipherable] / New York]