[Endorsed: War Office / 25^th July / Powder & Lead to / Mission to Pittsburg] [Addressed: Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r] War Department July 25^th 1793 Sir You will please to cause to be transported to Pittsburg immediately, to be thence forwarded to Head Quarters, sixty barrels finest musket powder, and ten tons of lead. — This quantity with others sent on before will form a surplus to any requisitions from the army — You will also have transported to Pittsburg for Head Quarters seven hundred and fifty new muskets and Bayonets — I am Sir Your obed't serv't H Knox S. Hodgdon Esq^r