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By all Means advance the Carpenters Money, For I wish to get them at Work & will humour them with any thing to obtain that End. ー

Inclose You a List of Stores sent up Mr Hughes. If arrived, forward them to Tyonderoga, You will find a Duplicate of the List I sent down to General Washington when I wrote him on the 12th instant, ー Such Articles of that List as have not been sent up, You must procure from the Owners of Sloops at Albany, who can now spare them as the Navigation is, for the present stopped: ー this is a Matter of so Much Moment, as to Claim Your first Attention. If You cannot procure a sufficiency of Blocks, Let the [illegible] Blockmakers make them & write in My Name to the Gentlemen at Po[u]ghkeepsie, who have the Direction of Building the Vessels there, to send up whatever You cannot get at Albany, & intreat them to be as Expeditious as possible in forwarding them to You. ー

The Anchors & Cables mentioned by Mr Hughes were delivered to Capt Peter Post of Esopus, If they are not come to Hand, Send an Express for them, Send up a Ton of Iron to Skenesborough & desired Mr [Hermanus] Schuyler to write in Time for what he may want.