War Department 6 Aug. 1799 [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I have had the honor to receive your letters of the 26^th, two of the 27^th and two of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] It will certainly be attended [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] serious inconveniences, to yield to the ap- :plications, made by the Northampton Compa- ny of volunteers, for the loan of two [undecipherable] Field pieces, and subject the department to [undecipherable] similar requests, which [undecipherable] the example, I shall not find it easy to resist. Artillery destined for the army, cannot with any degree of propriety be loaned to militia, [and] [we] have no surplus for such a purpose. However [undecipherable] these [undecipherable] may be, it must suffer as well by use, as from unavoidable accidents. I place in the present instance, in [undecipherable] conformity with what appears to be [undecipherable] your desire [and] the necessary orders for furnishing the two pieces of [undecipherable] artillery [undecipherable] [undecipherable] The inclosed names of candidates for Surgeons and Mates for the [undecipherable] the Regiments, with their recommendations are respectfully submitted. Perhaps you will be able to make a better se- :lection from the list inclosed in [undecipherable] letter of the [undecipherable]. This included all those who have offered for medical appointments from Massachusetts. [undecipherable] with the greatest respect. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most Ob[edient] [undecipherable] James McHenry John Adams President of the United States. Appointments for Surgeons and Mates in the fourteenth and Fifteenth Regiments of Infantry — Fourteenth Regiment Charles Blake .......... Surgeon. Luther Stearns . . . . . . Mate. Josiah Dwight .......... ditto, Fifteenth Regiment. Oliver Mann . . . . . . . Surgeon Jonathan White . . . . . Mate Ebenezer Lawrence . . . — ditto,