[Docket notation, cover page:] [Morris Town 10^th Apl. 1800 [undecipherable]] [Archival stamp: Received From No. [undecipherable] Dec^r. R [undecipherable] 401810] --- Col. Samuel [undecipherable: ink blot obscures surname] Morris Town 18^th April [1800] [Received stamp] Sir Your favor of the 15^th inst. I just rec^d. — we shall very gladly deliver [them?] but [have them?] inspected at [undecipherable] as [undecipherable] — ac-cording to our Contract, if the United States insist upon it — I observe you have not fully taken Notice of our Contract; we were to deliver them either at New York, Or at some place on Staten Island Sound as Was agreeable to us.— We will deliver them to any person You may please to direct at Elizabeth Town from whence they may be sent immediately to Fort Jay — Or if You please we will deliver them at the Landing on Governors Island The United States paying the freight therefrom Elizabeth Town We presume there will be no hesitation on that [undecipherable] on Your part — You are too well acquainted with the great Losses we have already suffered to wish us to do more then our Contract — The freight is but little but 40 or 50 Dollars additional Loss is too much for us. — I shall be glad to hear from You immediately on this subject as we want to engage Waggoners.— I called at Your Office the day I left [undecipherable] but [undecipherable] but you [undecipherable] — You have it inclosed — [undecipherable] Your Most Ob^t Ser^v David [Heth?]