[Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r. Lieut M. Heus [undecipherable] dated [undecipherable] Nov^r. 1^st 1794 A Boston with Orders to Dispose of Public Property — &c] [Address: Philip Van Rensselaer Esquire @ Albany [undecipherable] New York] Boston 1^st Nov^r 1794 Sir On receipt of this letter I wish you to make a disposition for the following [undecipherable] remaining on hand with you since the last returns were received — Viz: [undecipherable] Canthred [undecipherable] Bars, that after [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Board [undecipherable] Briggs [undecipherable] [undecipherable] organize, By [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and have [undecipherable] [undecipherable] many kinds of [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] and every other effects & lots belonging to the Public you may have on hand. [undecipherable] as Complete [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] is fully described and [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] liquidated Bills [undecipherable] of Public [undecipherable], the [undecipherable] to be received equal to service agreeable to the face of them not the interest allowed on them to the day [undecipherable] the remainder of the stores with any [undecipherable] that may remain on [undecipherable] are to be forwarded to that account. [undecipherable] to be [undecipherable] William [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] as that [undecipherable] — This being done I wish [undecipherable] me an account of [undecipherable] and an estimate of any claims that you stand engaged for, and for which no [undecipherable] is made, that I may take [undecipherable] for their adjustment — your [undecipherable] account [undecipherable] not [undecipherable] by this [undecipherable] [undecipherable] may also be forwarded and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] before the [undecipherable] to be [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — you will [undecipherable] that the account of the receipts and expenditures [undecipherable] [undecipherable] must accompany the [undecipherable] account without which nothing will be done [undecipherable] my compliments to M^rs [undecipherable] — and believe me to be your friend and very [undecipherable] [undecipherable] To Philip [undecipherable] — [undecipherable]