[page number: 466] amount of charges which were suspended on last settlement, and of which you were informed under date of the 16^th last. Sam H^o [initials: W.S.] John Wilkins Jun^r Es^q                        Accountants Office Quarter Master Gen^l                        January 2^d 1800 Pittsburg Sir I have to request that you will forward free instructions the inclosed letter as early as an opportunity shall offer which shall be safe, not the same here [strikethrough: ing] a letter from I Sewall member of Congress to Brigadier Gen^t Williamson — a Ditto directed to Sara Malcome, merchant at the Natchez — a Ditto directed to Capt. Gent Gilpin 1^st U. S. Reg^t at Fort Major — Sam H^o [initials: W.S.] The Secretary of War                        January 2^d 1800 Sir I have recieved a letter from Samuel Brindle agent at Boston. Neth cardinal relating an amount Current of Jacob Abbot for making fun bun carriage of the Sixe pres Guns — at 160 dollars each, which Mr Tredwell states to have him furnished agreeably to an agreement made for that purpose in conformity with decisions from the Secretary of War of the 8^th Aug^t 1792 & 20 October 1793. his Account states that the trucks were to be furnished by the United States, and the amount of three deducted from Mr Abbotts account for which he has left a blank in the act Incent, requests it to be filled up, and the balance ascertained, that Mr Abbot may