Certification of payment; $77.33 to James Boyle, Wagon Master under command of Major General Pinckney, Commanding the troops at Harpers Ferry Virginia [now WV].
Certification of payment; $86.74 to Doctor Jonathan Newman, Salisbury North Carolina for attendance and medicine administered to recruits of Captain Bird and Captain Gaither.
Certification of payment; $11.59, Private William Alvery, in Captain Rawlings Company, Colonel Bensons Regiment Maryland Militia, ordered into service to suppress an insurrection in the Western Counties of Pennsylvania
The deed has been delivered as requested by the Secretary of War. Since the records of Simmons' office have been consumed [by the fire], it will be necessary for Hodgdon to forward to him the authority by which he made the purchase or a voucher admitting the amount.
Mentioned "great inconveniences for want of a competent general staff". Requested additional labor to assist the Adjutant and Inspector General with their duties. Stated that the current Adjutant and Inspector General's can not be expected to perform all their tasks at their current pay grade.
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.
