[docket:] 1800 War [Office?] 1^st Jan[uary?] Greenleaf. Letter to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [endorsement notes:] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] is charged for the pay of the [undecipherable], under their, Both to 1799 — [undecipherable] as having rec^d from the [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable], of [undecipherable] your obt. of their two [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [April?] [18?] 1800. Sir Mess^rs [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] [strikethrough: haf] have this day, been paid for One thousand cavalry swords with their scabbards & belts manufactured by them at Hartford Connecticut in Feb^y 1799 where they were inspected at same time, by M^r Rob^t Con[undecipherable] who reported them equal to Contract— the sum of D^r 7. 67 each has therefore been paid amounting to . . . . . . . 7670 — and for 10 Iron bound chests for packing them . . . 13. 40 Amounting together to D^r 7683. 40 As they have all been rec^d in good order, by M^r Jn^o Harris Mil^ty Store Keeper in Philad^a. (except seven swords which he reports insufficient) you will please hold the proper per- sons accountable on the books of the Superintend^t of Mil^ty Stores. I am Sir Your very hum^ble Serv^t [signature] Samuel Hodgdon, Esq^r