Pittsburgh 27^th Septem^r 1793 Sir, Your letter of the [undecipherable] Instant I have this moment Received and am made happy by your Coming Recovery from that [dangerous] disease that has been so very distressing to the Inhabitants of your city. I am sorry it has not made its appearance in this place as we have no other employment in checking the Military [undecipherable], [undecipherable] any bad Effect from their nearest wants, mutual Insulting and Breathing amongst them, I am therefore persuaded that this [undecipherable] is altogether discouraging — Thomas Horton full advises two of the Teamsters with their [undecipherable]: [undecipherable] known the Waggoner by whom you find the [undecipherable] is not yet arrived, nor can I obtain any Information Respecting him only that he was a Teamster near [undecipherable: probable reading Brownburgh] Several Packages of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] not yet come to hand, I have enclosed a list of them the first Sub Legion is complete, and Eight packages of the [undecipherable] are come to hand. All in these last [undecipherable] come to hand [undecipherable] Post Dispatches, are now [undecipherable] on Record [undecipherable] Cloaths & [undecipherable] for best blank to discern them I [undecipherable] the Secretary of War would have excused you to have just [undecipherable] once of my [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] Remittance of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] years as he has not [undecipherable] sent from [undecipherable] for & under a Necessity of having safe Money from some of our Servants at [undecipherable] place and drawing on you in their stead, This I shall do [undecipherable] of Necessity only, as I am in hopes my Requisition are not [undecipherable] forgotten. — As you inform me of the absence of the Secretary of War I have not wrote to him [undecipherable] be [undecipherable] before [undecipherable] [undecipherable] news to [undecipherable] mine that it is probable [undecipherable] which will fall off on the 30^th — I have [undecipherable] writing [undecipherable] the Stationary I [undecipherable] to Request a Return of the [undecipherable], together with a Return of the [undecipherable] Blank Stationary, — a Quantity of mail Rule is also Wanting, and as we is a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in Fitting up [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I [undecipherable] sent a dozen [undecipherable] at that [undecipherable], a very Industrious Man who make Excellent [undecipherable] Nails at 3 [undecipherable] pounds, and Engage to [undecipherable] here at that hurray. [undecipherable] Waggoner will deliver a Trunk at your Office to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Brother in law of Major Ferguson, [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] from — [undecipherable] Robert Patterson, [undecipherable] is that Hamilton may be [undecipherable] his [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I am Sir — your Most Obed^t Hum^bl Serv^t [Signature] [Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r — [undecipherable] Philadelphia [undecipherable notations in a second hand]]