[duplicate] The Original [undecipherable] forwarded by [undecipherable] 1791 [undecipherable] Pittsburg 24 July 1791 Sir, As I have a considerable sum in Gold sent me, to pay the Troops, I soon [undecipherable: made] the [undecipherable: necessity] of applying for a pair of [undecipherable: Scales] & Weights, to enable me to pay it out by the penny weight as I received it. I wish [undecipherable] to get me a pair like I saw [undecipherable] and as at Philadelphia as near as [undecipherable: possible] to be accurate, together with a double supply of weights, as I shall be confined and may probably break a single set by being [undecipherable: beat] of [undecipherable] Let me also a general table of the weights [undecipherable] of the current [undecipherable] and send them to me by the Post. Your Stamp will frank the Postage. If not, I will pay that sum again to you for [undecipherable] [undecipherable: postage]. The men must be but, as I think [undecipherable: justly] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] and shall [undecipherable: considerably] after my account at [undecipherable] be called to pay the [undecipherable]. Pretty [undecipherable: Delays] have [undecipherable] been [undecipherable: spoken] to [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] may be in [undecipherable: from] [undecipherable: Instruments] [undecipherable] of [undecipherable: it] from me also. I am, Sir, Your most Ob^t Ser^t Samuel Hodgdon [undecipherable] Mili[undecipherable] M^r William Knox [Received from War Dep't [undecipherable]]