[Copy] Copy of a letter from Cap^t Frederick Frye to Major Constant Freeman, dated, Fort Moultrie May 1^st 1800. Sir In the Summer of 1798 my Company (then at Governor's Island) was in want of Clothing — I was directed by the Hon. Sec^y of War, to make a Return, which I did in July, for about 66 Suits — Mr Hodgdon did not send me any Cloaths. On the 2^nd of October, same year, I made another Return for 120 suits, as my Company had then encreased to upwards of one hundred men, and I was still recruiting — during the winter my men received blue Woolen Overalls, not of a very good quality, furnished by Col^o Stevens, Military Agent at New York. Sometime in the Spring of 1799 I received a letter from Mr Hodgdon (enclosing an Invoice agreeable to my return of 2^nd of October) informing me, the Cloathing was forwarded to my address, which I afterwards understood was unladed and stored in New York — I requested Lieut Dayton to wait on General Hamilton, and take his orders respecting them. — (After the Return was made, my number of men had been diminished to about sixty, by sending a detachment to West point, and Casualties.) Lieut^t Dayton informed me, he had waited on General Hamilton, who directed him to take all the Cloathing on to South Carolina with the Company; observing that there might be a difficulty in getting regular Supplies for the Company. — Soon after arriving at this place, the Company was reduced by Deaths and Desertions to about Forty one Men. — Those are the reasons, why, my Company, have a surplus, or rather Cloathing in advance. — I am &c. — [Endorsement, verso: Copy of a letter from Cap^t Frye to Major [Freeman] — [respecting] the clothing for [the] company — May [1^st] 1800]