Philadelphia 7^th November 1800 Sir You will be pleased to deliver twelve Bayonets to Mess^rs Jones & Kinney and the same number to Martin & Holmes to enable them to fit the Bayonet Scabbards contracted for exactly to the Bayonets which they are intended to cover — It will be best to take a loan receipt for them expressing that they are to be returned at an early period in the same order as they are receive — I am / Sir, your Most Obedient Servant Samuel Hodgson M^r John Harris — [Attendants Office Nov. 7^th. 1800 12 Bayonets to be [delivered to] Jones & Kinney [and the] same [number to] Martin & Holmes [for fitting] the Order [Signed:] John Harris [second signature undecipherable]]