[Received from State Dep't. Nov 24, 1894. B.P.O. 401810.] Sir Pittsburgh 26^th May 1793 The Wabash Indians are Arrived, I have paid each of the Waggoners, ten Dollars, and inclosed their Receipts — the Owners of the Waggoners to account w^t you for this Money on Settlement — Cap^t Prior has Applied to me for Money in order to enable him to proceed, I have had no Instructions from the Secretary of War, that wile justify, my advancing Money to Cap^t Prior, I wile therfore thank you to inform General Knox of this Circumstance — a [undecipherable] at is now Ready to carry them to Fort Washington, but their Baggage wile not be here in lefs than two Wicks, and in that time, as I Presume, Cap^t Prior is not much of an Oeconomist A Considerable Charge wile Accrue [strikethrough: in that time] — I am Sir your Obed^t Hum^ble Serv^t [undecipherable] Sam^l Hodgdon Esq^r Philadelphia —