[Page 1: Illegible Text — Some or all of the pages of this file are wholly or in part illegible. We have not been able either to locate a better copy of the document, or to enhance its legibility electronically.] [Transfer] Philadelphia 29 Jan^y 1793 Colonel Need has handed me your Letter of the [undecipherable] motions enclosing the Documents necessary to procure payment of [undecipherable: McLeive's?] transportation — Some thing shall be done with them before he again leaves this City, and you Shall know now what is done — Colonel [undecipherable: Powell?] has mentioned your Drafte, but has not presented it, when he does I have instructed him it Shall be honored — [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] the pleasure of his company at dinner to day — at which time he will present the Drafte — to this hour I have not been able to obtain a [undecipherable] for many amounts [undecipherable] — Ambister says he is waiting for some [undecipherable: paper?] in the hands of [undecipherable: General?] [undecipherable: St. Clair?], on which he drew warrants on me — It must be made, but I am determined that [undecipherable] intolerasse a delinquency of [undecipherable] Shall not much longer [undecipherable] against [undecipherable] the final adjustment — Should be made very happy by seeing you in Philadelphia — Have now a home, where I can enjoy my friends — Your duties must be great and constant, [undecipherable] your services will be properly rewarded — that Deputy [undecipherable: Quarter?] Master General Pay is all that I think the system will allow you — when [undecipherable] you will [undecipherable] over all our former services and sufferings — you [undecipherable] have enemies — remember — my friend [undecipherable] you are a [undecipherable: servant?] in a Republican Government, where the only [undecipherable] wished be in — and then you will cease to wonder, or care what [undecipherable] can effect — But here give me leave to say I know of no enemies you have — The Secretary of War properly appreciates your labours, and as far as is in his power will reward them — For myself — I [undecipherable] not admit the [undecipherable: thought?] that you [undecipherable] Double Dealing — as my friend, I am incapable of such low conduct — when [undecipherable] you mean I speak out to the persons themselves — not merely write to inspire even my enemies, by stabbing in the dark — a more manly conduct has [undecipherable] hitherto, and I trust will in future govern my conduct — Therefore, never for a moment suspect any thing from me, that is not openly declared — your friendship I value too much to [undecipherable] away — present my respects to M^r Craig — and General [undecipherable] [undecipherable] family — you may expect shortly to hear again from [undecipherable] — relative to the cause of the failure of the expedition under [undecipherable: McBlair?] — in the mean time believe me to be your friend and very — Your Humble Servant Samuel Hodgdon [I shall shortly forward a quantity of Powder and Lead —]