Trinsylvan Nov^r 10 1800 Sir Enclosed is a Petition of the Article furnished & expended in the Armory for the quarter ending Sept We will wait the Superintendants thanks — I received this afternoon & was this day ago to receive your letter of the 8^th inst it has not come to hand — I presume before this you have sent any letter of the 1^st acknowledging the receipt of up nine hundred Dollars indeed in my letter of the 27^th ult being the balance due in Estimate for last quarter I am Most respectfully Lewis Hodgdon Esq^r Jos Williams Trinsylvan Nov^r 10^th 1800 Sir Will you be good enough to purchase for the use of the United States Armory at this Plac, Two Barrels & good Ash, One Ton & better & one Still Two hundred pounds of good Brop about 60 f^t of 3 Sheet Bugle Some hundred pounds Cast Steel, & forward the Same by the first vessel bound to Hartford to be delivered John Cooley Boatman — Be good enough to forward your Bills to your latter that Inform domt for me to be made in this manner I am yr most respectfully Trenton N^r Jersey Jos Williams New York