Mounting of cannons on carriages is going forward, contracts for shell and shot have been made. Ten of the guns are already at Presque Isle. Col. Strong and his troops encamped on good ground working to build new town named Wilkinsonville, below Fort Massac. Delayed appointment of Sec. of War.
Certification of payment; $8 to Ensign George Rowan in Captain John Holmes Company of Colonel Mosher's Regiment of Franklin county Militia, ordered into service to suppress an insurrection in the western counties of Pennsylvania, balance of retained rations.
Certification of payment; $920 to Elijah and Simon House, contractors, Connecticut, for rations, quartermaster, and hospital supplies, for troops of United States in Connecticut.
Annin does not have the accounts of expenditures, because he had to return them so the many mistakes could be fixed. Once they are complete he will send them directly to Hodgdon. Encloses a partial return of articles on hand as of January 1.
Certification of payment; $150 to Captain Alexander Gibson for ground rent for cantonment at Staunton, Virginia for damages and for digging a well for troops
Certification of payment; $56.60 to G. Craft, Printer, Trenton, New Jersey for printing proposals in the New Jersey Gazette for supply of rations to U.S. Army.
Certification of payment; $18 to John Bradford, Printer at Lexington Kentucky, for printing proposals in the Kentucky Gazette, for the supply of rations in the U.S. Army and orders for officers to report themselves to General Wilkinson.
