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Windham 19th, 1779 Dear Sir I recd' yours of the Sixteenth, have noted the [[contenu?], the letters, I sent, Soft waning Directly by safe hand have Sent you all the Cloth I had on hand and the woolen Cloaths, Except aboute forty pr Woolen Overalls Cutting and Making, I expect more Cloth this weak hope in Sunday to have an Hundred pr Overalls ready, I should have Just a Larger Quantity of Articles of Cloathing; but when the Troops which belonged to this State paid this Town, these? Officers & Soldiers applied for help, Some of them no Shirts no Shoes or Stockens, the Officers with out Breaches I Looked into the Orders recd' from M. Hubberd to Send to providence, and found, the order was not Supplied, Delt out in proportion to Their Wants Took receipts to acct with Capt. Hubbard which I send by the Bearer, I Expect to have the Cloathing which I send forward to answer for the Town of Windham in the Same manner as if they were in Separate acct, the Invoices are in closed, of the whole I send forward at this time and what was Issued? to the Troop Berting? your Friend & Humble Svt Joshua Elderkin Comy

Please to accept my Particular regard, and give my Tender strikethrough: regard Love to your dear friend, and family, for their Respect Shown to my Children Josha Elderkin

on Side: I have sent forward 40 pr. stocking by order of the gov. and his Councils of Safety to Mr. Clark. I have a Number more not come to hand which will send soon as possible