[Received from State Dep^t Nov. 23. 803 R P.O 401816] [Address panel:] W^m Irvine Carlisle [docket:] John Gibson July 1793 [docket:] Letter from G^o for Ordnance John Gibson Oct 1792 [19/2] [19/] [8/1] [1 F] Ansel Hogsden Esquire Philadelphia --- Carlisle 7 June 1793 S^r Your Letter of the 27 Ult^o was presented by M^r Logue. In the Conversation which took place between us you certainly have misapprehended me. I informed you that Part of the Money was collected which was afterwards paid to you by M^r Mellor on your Route to the Western Country. As the Sums were never in my Possession nor any Part of their Price I cannot by any Means suppose myself responsible. The first Distribution of Arms was regularly a Rec^t given to each State to Colo Magaw afterwards they were issued without that [ceremony] and detained in the hands of sundry Persons omitting [strikethrough: that had] declined owning in the Trips [strikethrough: they] obliged. The Business has been repeatedly mentioned to the Part^y of Colo Magaw but no Steps have yet been taken by them, [with] their Interference I am of Opinion the Money can not be collected. I am y^r H^ble Ser^t [Your letter was presented from Without the last row to the numbers.] George Newman