Captain Bruff is travelling to Maryland for the purpose of recruiting a company and needs to be furnished with the necessary equipage and clothing for his recruits.
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers.
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers and routine instructions and correspondence concerning Army recruiting.
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers.
Contract of William Salter and William Lane and Clayton Earle for furnishing Iron Cannon. Contractors advanced $1500 for purpose of of carrying proposals into effect. Are to produce a number of cannon equal to the value of sum of $1500.
Requests a response to his inquiry on what do with arms received from the Watsons. Mentions that he has provided lodging for his accommodation at the house of Anthony Marcellin.
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers.
Captain McMillen must be relieved as soon as possible from the Company of Artillery at Northampton County so that he can be available to superintend the laboratory intended for the production of draughts for cannon.
Current system requires returns of all quartermaster clothing and Indian stores received, issued, expended, and forwarded to all garrisons, forts, arsenals, and public stores. Reports tardiness of obtaining reports but expresses optimism in progress.
Reports that Captain Stoddart in Portland needs tents for his men and is concerned about warm weather and exposure to contagious disorders. Stoddart also requests extra clothing, promising to pay for them at contract price.
Certification of payments; $83 to detachment of Infantry stationed at West Point under direction of George Fleming, Ordnance and Military Storekeeper, West Point for the service of the Ordnance Department.
Certification of payments; $15 to Captain James Bruff, for expenses traveling from West Point to New York by order of Major General Alexander Hamilton.
Encloses a bill of lading of seventeen pieces of kentledge shipped on board Capt. Jackson's schooner "Weymouth" in the harbor of New York and bound for Philadelphia.
