[undecipherable] [undecipherable] city of Washington November 13^th 1800 On the receipt of this letter you will please to take post at Hartford and relieve Major [undecipherable]; who is ordered to surrender his charge, with every light he may possess on the subject to you, and to Join his Regiment near the mouth of the [undecipherable] the soonest possible. It is indispensable that you should employ every exertion and Industry in pushing the Recruiting service, and I hope you may have two hundred fine fellows ready to March in the Spring. Lieutenant Richmond is to continue to perform this duty of Pay Master, and you are to Report Monthly [undecipherable] fail, to this Office agreeably to established Rules. By [undecipherable] the General's — I am Sir Your Obed^t Serv^t [undecipherable] Major Kingsbury [Public Service; 90; PAID; [circular postmark: undecipherable]; Norwich, Connecticut]