[Docket: Letter from / Joseph Williams / 16^th April 1800] [Received / Nov. 2[undecipherable] / State / R.P.O. 401810] Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r & Intendant of Stores Philadelphia Springfield April 16^th 1800 Sir, Enclosed are the Returns of articles received and delivered in the Military & Armory Departments, in the Quarter ending March 31^st 1800 with the Several vouchers to support the Same — The expenditures in the Armory, are as stated by the Superintendant which I believe are right. By yesterdays Post I received a letter from Nathan Ham[undecipherable] advising, that the Swords, scabbards, & Belts fabricated by his Father for the United States, are yet in his possession, at Middletown — Mine of the 10^th advising you of the receipt of two thousand Dollars, enclosed in your letter of the 5^th inst. I flatter myself has got to hand ere this. I am Sir with respect Your Obedient Servant Joseph Williams Samuel Hodgdon Esquire