[Received from State Dep't. Nov. 21, [undecipherable] R.P.O. 4013[undecipherable]] Pittsburg 17^th Jan^y 18[undecipherable] Dear Sir I sent this Morning Proposing to send You By Post A Number of Vouchers, but on Receiving Your [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to be more Convenient on [undecipherable] Settlement & Your Note with the Auditor, to have the Whole of the Acct in View. I shall therefore give Due Bills [undecipherable] money to discharge them ones [undecipherable] are now Against me, [undecipherable] as Remitted, & thereby Obtain Vouchers, for All the Charges against the D M Department During Your Administration, this I shall have done by Next Post - The Quarter Master Gen'l is [undecipherable] with the [undecipherable] [undecipherable: Reno] thinks he has Employed Improper Waggoners [undecipherable] Insolence, men that are not to be Depended on - John Whitman set off yesterday to Convey with him Cap^t [undecipherable] would but Could not take Charge of Major [undecipherable] it shall be sent as soon as Pofs[undecipherable] Col^t Keely Arrived Yesterday & has Deli[undecipherable] Now Sir I believe it is not well understood whether he is to Continue at this Post or to go to Fort Washington - If M^cRunn has an Hour to spare he Please to direct him to send me the supply of Sugar, [undecipherable] such as he had last [undecipherable] we are now Entirely out of those Articles - I am Dear Sir your Obedient Humble Servant [undecipherable: Jno. Craig] [Sam^l Hodgdon Esq^r Philad^a] N.B. The Compensation Allowed my Clerk is certainly to[undecipherable] Labour. That finds himself at this Place has of [undecipherable] more Can be Allowed I Shall be Obliged to [undecipherable] it out of my own Pay, which is not too Great - [undecipherable: Craig]