[Extract of a Letter from Colonel [undecipherable: Staats?] dated 6^th [undecipherable: June] 1801] Dear Sir — Surinam [undecipherable: Porchot?] to. 19. 1801 — inclosed you will receive an Account of the sale of the public Powder at Elbe with a State of the Certificates I have rec^d in payment, some small ballance of the sale is yet to settle for, which my being called on other bussines has prevented my doing but shall be done Soon, B^r M^r Huggins who I rented the Store for the Artilery Carriages of, is very impotent to get the Store cleared for his own Use, and as the Year is expired he says I must move them, pray as these Articles are paying a considerable [undecipherable] attonent and some of them but of little value, cant you give some other disposition decisively for them, as well the shot and shells on the Susquehanna as I am Apprehensive of a waste in the latter property or any property not under lock, I should have forwarded you the sales sooner but as M^r Porrier was to be up on some of our private bussiness, retained it till he came I am Sir &c &c § Sam^l Hodgdon Es^qr C D [undecipherable: Spater?] [(a Copy)]