From John Adams to James McHenry, 15 August 1798
Quincy Augt. 15. 1798
Sir
I transmit you, an address from a Corps of Horse in Warren, North Carolina,—I have some difficulty about accepting for a Company so small a Number as forty and also about lending the Arms, I pray you to detirmine These Points in this Case as you have done and mean to do in others and transmit them an answer.—I am, Sir, / Your Most obedient
John Adams
MHi: Adams Family Papers, Letterbooks.