Sir Pittsburgh 3^d May 1793 Your letter by this days Post I have Re ceived, together at a Packet of News Papers &c — Your Assurance that the Quarter Master Department, on Requisition of the Quarter Master General, will be fully Supply'd w^t Money, Affords me but little Consolation in my present Situation, the Quarter Master General, being now at an insuperable distance, & frequent Calls, on me for Sums I am Unable to pay — On the 22^d Instant Stook the liberty of drawing on you in favor of W^m McHenley, for Eleven hundred & four Dollars, on Act of Forages I have drawn on you in favor of Anthony Button of Philadelphia, for Two hundred Dollars, in Order to discharge a Similar Act, these two Drafts be pleased to pay and Charge to Act of the Quarter Master Department, Untill other advice Reaches you from the Quarter Master General — Captain Prior waits the Arrival of his Baggage I Suppose it cannot Reach this, in less than ten days from this date, Sure is he furnished w^t Money, to defray his Expences or not — M^r Craigs Respects to you She is glad of the News from India Sam Sir your very Obest Serv^t — [undecipherable: Tru^ll Reilly?] Sam^l Hodgdon Esq^r Philadelphia [address panel: My W— / Col — / 3^d May 1793 / from Pittsburgh]