[endorsement, upper right, written diagonally]: James [undecipherable] [undecipherable] September 1799 — [undecipherable] [oval archive stamp]: [2334] [circular archive stamp, center] [address panel, lower center]: [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [notation, right of address]: 16 [received stamp, partially legible] Sir Trenton Sept 30. 1799. M^r Harris informs me that he has forwarded you an order for clothing to be [undecipherable] to Wilmington Delaware where they are ready. I [undecipherable: would?] thank you to address them to the care of Mess^rs Rumsey & Brown of that place who will take care of them & deliver them to L^t Blake when he wants [them?] — Gen^l Hamilton has wrote me & intimates it to be wish that the clothes for the Post of Fort Adams, Fort [undecipherable: Stoddert?] [undecipherable] on the Miss[issippi] corps should go by the route of New Orleans as they have some heavy command[undecipherable] to to go to Fort Adams. — [undecipherable] Gen^l McHenry would wish them to be out [undecipherable] that [way?] & he mean to go him[self?]. [undecipherable] He informs me that the [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] one of the [Public?] [undecipherable] will take the on convey a month round to New Orleans — Those articles also for Fort [undecipherable: Stoddert?] it is intended should go by the same route then forwarded to Mobile from thence — I am Sir Your ob^t ser^t [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Ag^t [undecipherable] Please forward the order for New Orleans to Brown and when the clothing is sent on. I [undecipherable: shall?] thank you to inform me [whether?] the [undecipherable] clothes for Col. [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the 3. Reg^t or whether the 3 [undecipherable] for Cap^t Brand of [undecipherable: Stoddert?] has been sent on by you they are included in the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] by you to me the day after the [undecipherable] was made —