[Letter from Cap^t [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] December / 1800] [Received from Stege / Nov 21 / R.P.O. 301810] [214] [Answer to the 8^th [undecipherable]] Fort Johnstone N^o C— Dec^r 12. 1800— Enclosed with this are returns of Ordnance, military stores, Inspection & the Surgeon's return. A return of Wants is preparing — it will be a long one — a new post & every thing wanted — The buff belts you were so good as to promise to send round, have not yet arrived; I hope they have not mist their way — nor that the memorandum misplaced — I am informed a Quantity of Clothing intended for the 3^d Reg^t. Infantry is by some fatality got to Wilmington — from whence no opportunity may soon offer of [undecipherable] them to their original destination: Has you not better have the shirts, shoes, socks, Blankets, patent aloons, stocks & clasps, knapsacks, nott de transferd to the troops here — and have the coats reshipp'd for Philad^a. when you can do with them as you please. If you approve of this arrangement — y^r. order I presume) is all that is necessary: But if not — Suffer me to advise you to direct them to be reshipp'd to Philad^a. as soon as possible — or the moth, mice, rats, millews &c will ruin them. Pray don't forget the buff belts — the old black ones are disfigured & worn out — Co With Respect [undecipherable] y^r mo^st hum^ble most [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I am I am your Ob^dient Servant [signature] Brig^g Capt 1^st Reg^t. Add[undecipherable] Samuel Ho[undecipherable] Esq^r. [undecipherable] old Superintendent of Military Stores