[address notation, rotated:] Col. Pickering [undecipherable] Office [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Philadelphia from [undecipherable] To fix the carriage of the Chick- asaw goods from Pittsburg to Nashville, I want to know precisely the [underline: weight] of the whole. This I wish to be furnished with to-day, that [I] may settle with the gentleman who will con- tract for such carriage & who is waiting. Y^r ob^t Serv^t T. Pickering War Office May 12. 1795. Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r