We have directed the Clothier Genl to wait upon you for the delivery of all the Clothing and some of the other articles in your charge belonging to the United States and have the honor to enclose a copy of a Resolve of Congress on this subject in consequence whereof we request you will be pleased to deliver the Clothing, Cavalry Swords, bitts, Stirrups and medicine and his receipt shall be your sufficient discharges for the articles received by him. We expect speedily to be able to take the necessary measures respecting the other parts of your lading and as soon as circumstances will permit we shall inform you of its destination. We have the honor to be &c.

As you are so fully possessed from personal conversations with the necessity and designs of the Board in forwarding the Clothing and other articles we have committed to your charge from Boston to Philadelphia it is unnecessary to enlarge on the expediency of using every degree of dispatch in your power. You have letters from the Board to the Commanders and Captains of the Frigates and transports in which the articles have been imported from France and you will no doubt recive them on application for the purpose. You will apply to Genl Heath to whom we have written on the subject for the necessary Escorts on the route from Springfield in Massachusetts to Easton in Pennsylvania, From Boston to Springfield we expect a Militia guard will be furnished by his Excellency Governor Hancock whose assistance we have requested and to whom you will apply. We shall on being informed of the probable time of their arriving, there endeavour to procure a militia guard from Easton to Philada for the Stores. The route we have pointed out is this Springfield, Fishkill, Sussex Courthouse and Easton but if any change of circumstances should happen we leave you at liberty to alter the route so as to insure the safety of the Convoy. You will keep Genl Heath and this Board duly informed of every circumstance so as that no mistakes be made respecting the route and the times and places when and where guards shall take up the Convoy. These informations should be given by very confidential Conveyances as the knowledge of the route and movement of the articles should be as secret as possible. The Quarter Masters in the route have orders to give you every assistance but the means of paying the transportation being furnished to you by orders of the Superintendant of Finance he will no doubt hold you responsible for the most oeconomical expenditure of the money and that you will take advantage of all transportation which can be procured without advance of cash. You will attend particularly to the situation of the Clothing as to packag[ing] so as to have it in the best possible order for transportation that losses and damage on the road may be avoided. Careful and responsible Conductors approved if not appointed to you should attend the Clothing and other articles. The copies of the Invoices with which you are furnished [we] point out to you like descriptions of articles you are to forward which will consist of all the Clothing procured by Colo. Laurens and arrived at Boston the Horsemans swords, bridle bitts and Stirrups and such of the [median] as in the opinion of the Director Genl are not wanted for the Northern Army, but you will inform him the purchases can be made in this quarter consistent with the State of the Finances and therefore as any supply for the Southern Army should come and whatever is left at Boston must be deposited with the Depy Quarter Master there, subject to the orders of this Board only. If any of the articles we have commited to your superintendance shall have been, contrary to your knowledge and intentions delivered to any person in Boston, they are to deliver them to you immediately as we trust solely to you in this business. We are Sir yours &c.