Simmons requests that the Quartermaster General forward the enclosed letters from Congressman S. Sewall to the following destinations:
Letter to Brigadier General Wilkinson;
Letter to Lewis Walcourt, merchant in Natchez
Letter to Capt. Daniel Bissell, 1st U.S. Regiment
Conveyed pleasure with reporting that McHenry was nearly finished with his report on the military establishment along with his propositions for its improvement. Other requisitions will require time to prepare, but McHenry will furnish Otis with an answer as soon as possible.
Chart showing military stores on hand and delivered since 1st of June 1798 to January 1800 at Carlisle. Included are blunderbusses, tomahawks, and pikes.
The papers necessary to the settlement of Strong's account, including receipts from Major Hamtramck and Daniel Britt, are deposited with his friends in Cincinnati which is three hundred miles from his current location in Detroit. In the Spring he will obtain a leave of absense and proceed to Philadelphia to settle his account.
States the particulars of the court martial and conviction of Andrew Anderson, and affirms his sentence to hang, in the name of "the beneficial influence of well-placed examples in Military Service." [Note: Adams signaled his intent to pardon Andrew Anderson at the last minute in his letter to McHenry of September 18, 1799].
Copy of charges exhibited against Daniel Ames, Superintendent of the Armory at Springfield, handed to the Board of Inquiry previous to their sitting. There are four such charges, accusing Ames of malfeasance while in office. Joseph Williams is paymaster and public storekeeper at the same armory.
