Responds to the request from Count Rumford to visit the United States, where he was born, if possible, for the purpose of donating his collection of military materials to an academy. McHenry forwarded the request to the President, with recommendations, and conveys the President's response. Mc Henry also thanks King and Trumbull for items sent from England.
Cited in Simmons to Williams, 07/24/1799. Letter from Joseph Williams, Paymaster and Public Storekeeper at the Springfield Armory, to William Simmons, War Department accountant.
Lt. Shepard of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers asks Simmons to transmit to him arrearages of pay and subsistence due him since the acceptance of his appointment on March 13 to June 30, 1799.
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers, routine correspondence concerning courts-martial and infractions of military discipline, and routine instructions and correspondence concerning the organization of individual regiments