"Below is a drawing or design of a Rifleman's Pike intended to be seven feet long and the manner of slinging it agreeable to your request, which if you approve of, I will give directions and have the five hundred made as soon as possible, as Ordered by his Excellency Genl Washington's Letter (a Copy of which you have favor'd me with) the Tin Canisters for Musket Cartridges I will likewise attend to, I have already ordered great numbers to be made and will send them off as soon as done. The Letters and explanation shew the different parts of the Pike Vizt.

Your answer to the above with such alterations as you think proper will oblige your most hume servt"