[Docket:] David Jones / 13 Novem^r / 1794 [Address:] · Major Samuel [undecipherable] Esquire / Superintendent of Military / Stores — / Philadelphia Springfield. November the 13^th 1794 Sir I have been long Reasoning with my Self upon the delays of your Letters in as much to mind, and not being able to draw any Satisfactory conclusion Must beg leave to trouble you again on the Same Subject. Thinking that you will neither be disposed to favor me with an answer to [undecipherable] to much to about the [undecipherable] — not having had any [undecipherable: Letter] from you this [undecipherable: Three] weeks [undecipherable] I arrived at this place — having [undecipherable: written] to before agreeable to the directions of your letter as far as I possibly can [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] many [undecipherable: promises] on the Same to [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] I have got to as to Men from fifteen to [undecipherable] a month and [undecipherable] Apprentices. Col. [undecipherable] has given up the [undecipherable] Shop which I have agreed on the Same of your Order and find much more to suit than expected by its being [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] to work — [undecipherable] and a Small addition — [undecipherable] your attention to my [undecipherable: letters] of the 10^th and [undecipherable] — Containing an [undecipherable: account] of both and Materials being on the work to the amount of [undecipherable] and [undecipherable: soliciting] the Privilege for water works and [undecipherable: Holding] the Pay for the same — also that the Privilege to [undecipherable: hire] for Said work And to have on [undecipherable] [undecipherable] will be admitted into the working [undecipherable: pattern] for [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and the Repairing a [undecipherable: house] for my family — All which you will find [undecipherable] in the above mentioned [undecipherable: letters]. The men that I have engaged belong to different parts of the Country — and will be here about this time [undecipherable] to the calculations of the time it would take to prepare for them and agreeable to the [undecipherable: immediate] attention Express in your Letter [undecipherable] to pay to the [undecipherable: business] — It [undecipherable] a pity that the Men Should come here & be under pay to do Nothing — and Sir most earnestly Pray that you would be pleased to write to me at [undecipherable] that I may know wheather there is any [undecipherable: Innovation] and what is to be done wheather there is money to be had to [undecipherable: purchase] the [undecipherable: tools] and [undecipherable: Stock] for [undecipherable] to go to work — or wheather the Publick Business is to be Neglected & the Men [undecipherable] on [undecipherable] — your compliance with the same [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Sir your most [undecipherable] Humble Servant [undecipherable] [Postscript:] I would not be [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] on any thing beyond the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable: Government] — but only want to know wheather the [undecipherable: business] is to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] my mind may [undecipherable] to much out [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] Major Samuel Hodgdon Esquire