Knox provides Pennock with general instructions as Naval Agent. Secretary of Treasury will furnish instructions on purchase of certain articles. Will work with master builder Mr Morgan, who is currently overseeing the cutting of timber in South Carolina and Georgia. Once this is finished, repair to Portsmouth New Hampshire. Asks for the price at which journeymen, shipwrights and blacksmiths may be obtained. General and particular instructions will be forwarded to master builder and clerk of the ship yard.
Major Craig first asks Samuel Hodgdon to remind Major Stagg of the need to include postage fees in future mail shipments and then he imparts his account of the burning of General Neville's house, stable, kitchen, and grainery by insurgents.
Engineer John Vermonnet forwards to the Secretary of War a draught of the fortification of Annapolis. Also states that the crossway at Alexandria will be completed next week, weather permitting. Vermonnet intends to open the ditches as soon as the crossway is finished. Colonel Fitzgerald has contracted for them.
Major Craig sends his account of local events that resulted in the death of federal troops and the burning of General Neville's home to the Secretary at War.
Knox informs Captain James Seaver [Sever] that the President of United States General George Washington has appointed Seaver [Sever] to be Captain of one of the frigates to be built. Knox encloses a list of Captains according to rank. He notes that since Seaver's friends have applied for the appointment, he presumes that Seaver will accept. He is directed to repair to Baltimore by 1 September, and transmit his oath to the War Office.
Letter, encloses commission for unnamed Lieutenant; discusses the positive prospects for Wayne's campaign; discusses Indian affairs with the Six Nations.
Josiah Fox, appointed a clerk in the Department of War, affirms support of constitution, and will well and faithfully discharge his duties. Affirmed at Philadelphia by Hilary Baker, alderman.
General Wayne has complained about the poor quality of the hats and shoes supplied to his Army by the contractors for 1793. Wolcott advises that he will take appropriate measures against those Contractors and Inspectors who are responsible for the quality of the equipment and clothing they provide.
The Attorney for the District of Pennsylvania transmits to Hamilton a copies of letters from Secretary Knox and General Wayne relative to the bad quality of hats and shoes furnished for the use of the army by the contractors for 1793. President Washington is of opinion that the contractors and inspectors ought to be called into account. Nathaniel Waters and Peter Cooper were the inspectors of hats and shoes.
Hodgdon is asked to provide clothes for John Philips of [Joseph] Shaylor's Company who had been taken prisoner by the western Indians at the time Lt. Lowery and Ensign Boyd were killed.
Bissell promised to follow instructions regarding settlement and pay of troops. Previous receipt rolls deviated from the Circular Letter Instructions because Bissell had not received it.
The business at the Bank has been settled for Dayton and the General but a draft on the Branch Bank of New York cannot be obtained unless Dayton directs the money to be transmitted to the Branch.
From 1787-1790 Hodgdon was paid at the rate of $500 per year and yet his request for a greater allowance has been protested. As it now stands, that amount will not cover his expenses so Knox and Hamilton are asked to make the necessary settlement.
