Springfield Oct^r 11 1800 Sir Enclosed is the return of Receipts & deliveries of Military Stores for the Quarter ending Sep 30^th. Tis the Same may merit your approbation - the Armoury return Shall be forwarded as soon as [undecipherable] - prove - amounts of expenditures from the [undecipherable] - I have also enclosed an Estimate of the Probable amount of expenditures for the Month of October [undecipherable] I hope you have had my last one - of the 8^th advising of the receipt of yours Most respectfully of the 27, enclosing five thousand dollars Your Obed^t Saml. Hodgdon Esq^r Jos Williams Springfield Oct 13 1800 Sir I have rec^d your letter of the 27 ulti enclosing Invoice of Stock Gov for this [undecipherable] this day, the box arrived a few days [undecipherable] at which time I gave my Receipts to M^r [undecipherable] However as you request one of the Invoices [undecipherable] be receipted to send to you — you will find enclosed I am—Sir Most respectfully your Obed^t Col. Edmⁿ [undecipherable] Jos. Williams [undecipherable] N 942