[Sept 23^d 1800 Col Sam Hodgdon Order for Buttons [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] ✓ [undecipherable] &c. [undecipherable: James Muir?]] Philadelphia 23 Septem^r 1800 Sir— Three hundred and fifty Gross of Vest Buttons answering to the Pattern here with sent to you is wanting to compleat the Clothing for the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers— Be pleased to purchase them, and deposit them in the Public Store with all convinient Despatch— About forty Gross are wanted immediately; the Clothing [underline: order] is waiting for them.— I am Sir, Your Most Obedient Servant Samuel Hodgdon Israel Wheelen Esq^r Purveyor— 350 [undecipherable]