After a seige of nine months, Fischer finds himself so debilitated as to be rarely able to walk across the room. He and money have become strangers so he asks Hodgdon to settle his account. He has promised to pay a Negro Dunn on the morrow but, like all Dutchmen, Dunn's heart is rarely touched with the finer feelings of humanity. Fischer has not one dollar in his house at the present time.
There is not a pressing necessity for clothing at Elizabeth Town but it will be needed soon. Rather than waiting for the river to open, and since the sleighing is now good, it might not involve much additional expense to send them all the way by land instead of by Trenton.
The regiment is now ten months in arrears of pay and Col. Henley has informed Chandler that he will soon have enough cash for all of 1797. He awaits only Simmons' instructions as to how to proceed.
Certification that forty dollars is due Lt. Philip Rodrique of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers, being the bounties paid, and the premiums allowed him, for enlisting three recruits in the service of the United States.
Certification that $875.57 is due a detachment of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers and a detachment of Infantry, both stationed at Fort Niagara under the command of Maj. J. J. Ulrich Rivardi, being the pay, subsistence, and forage of the officers, and the pay of the non-commissioned officers and privates, for December 1797.
Hodgdon is asked to furnish Tench Francis with patterns for stools for grape shot for 12 and 24 pounders at his earliest convenience so they can be cast immediately.
McHenry provides a list of articles and wants to know which of them have been procured, where they are deposited, and when the remains may be expected? Also what part of those articles ordered to be manufacutured or repaired have been completed and where are they deposted?
It appears that the anchors that arrived at Boston for the frigate "Constitution" are not proper for that ship so Captain Nicholson has refused to receive them. McHenry wants to know the substance of the agreement with the people who furnished the anchors respecting particular dimensions and qualities. He also wants to know whether the anchors to be furnished by Mr. Cushing at Pembroke are in a forward state and when they are to be completed.
Encloses list of absentees from Fort Massac and Fort Knox. Men of Captain Pasteur's company had no officer, thus were not paid. Refers to Robert Stanton of Captain [Zebulon] Pike's company as having been paid. Provides list of absentees of garrisons of Massac and Fort Knox.
