Instructs Captain Barry to inspect the cannon offered to the United States by the legislature of New York, and to send them to Philadelphia if he finds them fit for service.
Informs Governor Jay that Captain John Barry, of the frigate United States, has been ordered to travel to New York to inspect the cannon Jay has offered to lend to the United States. Gives instructions for the transaction.
Receipt of payment of $80 to Sturgis for delivery of dispatches by riding express from Shippensburg to Pittsburg to Philadelphia and back to Shippensburg per agreement with William Rippey of Shippensburg. Brigadier General Wilkinson notes that dispatches came from Secretary of War and returned with the general's answer.
Hodgdon finds that Gen. Wilkinson's return and that of the Quartermaster General are different which is due to the fact that Wilkinson's is confined to a specific object of which the QMG has no knowledge.
Hodgdon discusses the freight being transported to Capt. Truxton's ship and stresses that although France (the "terrible republic") seems determined to have every government at its feet, the U. S. will not be one of them.
Certification that $10.70 is due Private Richard Oliver, late of Captain Edward Butler's Company, 4th Regiment, being his pay from June 1, 1795 to August 21, 1795, following the day his term of service expired.
