[docketing notation: [undecipherable] only / Copy — [undecipherable] — / [undecipherable] 5 180[undecipherable]] Pittsburg 11^th July 1794 Dear Sir, Your letter of the 4^th Instant enclosing 5000 Dollars blank notes I have received together with a ticket for Col° [undecipherable: Sergeant?] & letters for Gen^l [undecipherable: Haras?] all of which shall go forward in this days Mail for Gen^l Washington. I presume my letter by last Post has informed you of Col° Sergeant's taking charge of the Specie Dolls. and as the weather has since been favourable, I have no doubt of its having by this time reached its destination — Lieut Smith left one old Smash but Bridle. but no Port mantaeu, or other Baggage. Several Waggons with Clothing &c have [undecipherable: lately?] Arrived most of these Waggons have brought a number of Bundles of Tents. the out sides of which are generally injured. those delivered on the 9^th by John Brotherton are in a bad Condition indeed. I am therefore of Opinion & [undecipherable: particularly?] as Brotherton is a Carefull Waggoner, that the Injury these heavy Bundles Sustain by Continual friction on their way here is unavoidable. and that in future Tents ought to be put up in the same manner with Clothing. Major Stagg has been so obliging as to forward [undecipherable] here Papers for which [undecipherable] a [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] his [undecipherable] Packet has not arrived, from which he infers that either Brown has not sent the Papers to the War Office or that Major Stagg has been too much hurried to have them put up in this Packet [undecipherable] I have the liberty of desiring the attention of one of your young men to this news Paper business for me. I am, Dear Sir with great respect Your [undecipherable: obedient?] Servant [signature: undecipherable] [Samuel Hodgdon Esquire Philadelphia —]