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Request for money; "I stand in Need of a few Dolars I wish you to Send to me Eight or ten by James and Charge it to my account…" Includes receipt on back signed by James Todd stating that ten dollars was received.

Bill for a schooner and news of its capture; "You will receive enclosed the bill…for Schooner Attach & cargo amounting to $255…I am very much mortified to inform you of the capture of this Schooner, & what renders it the more mortifying, is, that she was taken up the river Mississippi 12 miles above the bar & after she had passed Fort Charles, from which one Shabby General Flournoy thought it expedient to withdraw his men, which gave the enemy an undisturbed possession of the river..."

Intelligence of a British military defeat [the Battle of Longwoods]; "I regret that our Loss is very considerable." Mentions [William] Caldwell's Rangers and dealings with Native Americans.

Intelligence of military defeat [the Battle of Longwoods]; encloses a report made by Captain [Alexander] Stewart. "I regret to say that our loss has been very great considering the Numbers we had engaged, and that notwithstanding the Gallantry displayed on the occasion they were obliged to retire owing to the very superior Force of the enemy." Folder includes a one-page ADS return of casualties from Alexander Stewart dated March 5, 1814.

Anti-Federalist, Hawkish political sentiments; "I eat no 'dirty bread…from the Stagnant pools & ditche of the Commonwealth' and am a minute man to take up arms as before against Madison and in favour of a Northern President."

List of militia men in the Second Company of the 33rd Regiment who failed to perform military service; "who being notified to meet at Alexandria on the thirteenth of April 1813 to perform a tour of Duty in Service of the united States and Did not perform Said tour nor Send Substitutes."

Orders addressed to Lt. Hodges and Lt. Manning; Hodges will relieve Lt. Lewis until further orders, and Manning will proceed with recruits to Captain Tillebrown's Company and eventually join a force under the command of Major Putnam. Includes orders to other men.

Requesting the bearer of the note be paid twelve dollars "for forty two pounds of sugar for the use of the Hospital." Signed by Will Williams, Hosp[ita]l Surg[eon] Mate. With United States DS to Kebiasse; Detroit; 1 page; March 26, 1814. Receipt for $12 paid by the United States government to "Kebiasse an indian" for 42 pounds of sugar to be used in the Detroit hospital. Acknowledges receipt of the money from James McCloskey, A[ssistant] D[eputy] Q[uarter] M[aster] G[e]n[era]l. Includes Kebiasse's mark, witnessed by John Roby.

News from General Wilkinson; he has been informed "that the enimy meditate some enterprizes on the lake with their flotilla." Requests that Macdonough inform him of his situation and he will try to protect him from the enemy's enterprizes. He can bring 1000 men into the field in case of attack.

Pay of Richard Cairns, a corporal in Captain Joseph Cairns' Company of the 27th U.S. Infantry Regiment. He was "regularly discharged on the 6th day of April 1814 his term of service having expired on the 29th day of March 1814."