Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers.
Discusses recruiting in Georgia and South Carolina and the disposition of the Fourth Regiment. States: "Mrs. Pinckney (who has been very ill) unites with me in best respects to Mrs. Hamilton. I cannot imagine what gave rise to the Report you mentioned relative to the Review, as there was not the most distant cause for it..."
Discusses details of recruiting and states: "The clothing &c were so long in coming to hand that the officers were under the necessity of providing blankets, shoes, pots &c for the recruits."
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers.
Tracy informs McHenry that he has consulted with Colonel Taylor and gotten his approval for the recommended officers from a previous letter. Tracy also updates McHenry on the recruiting process in Connecticut.
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers and routine instructions and correspondence concerning the organization of individual regiments.
Calls for an adjustment of the powder account, previously embezzled by the keeper of the magazine. Hopes that the missing powder will be returned in kind. Outlines the repercussions.
Certification of payment; $775.14 to Company of 1st Regiment Artillerists and Engineers stationed at Reading, Pennsylvania under command of Captain Joseph Elliott.
Certification of payment; $802.98 to detachment of 2d Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers stationed at Fort Green, Georgia under command of Lieutenant William F. Deveaux.
Abstract of the articles purchased by Ebenezer Stevens agent for the war department in New York in the month March 1799. Transmitted and signed by William Simmons accountant.
