[Docket notation:] Letter[s] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] Contractor [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Information is requested from M^r Hodgdon on the three following Points Viz: 1^st What Quantity of Provisions or other Effects, the Property of the Contractor, were lost on the day, of Action, say the 4^th Nov 1791. ? 2^d What Service was performed by the Horses belonging to the Q. M^r Department in transporting the Provisions for the Contractor, & the supposed value of such Service — 3^d What number of Horses were lost by the Contractor during the Campaign for which he is entitled to Payment from the public [United States To [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — ( ) D^r. 1794 July 13. To an [Express?] furnished on the order of the [Stamp: 302]] On the first point — M^r Hodgdon [undecipherable] [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] makes the following [undecipherable] & 116 Oxen estimated at [undecipherable: probable reading 370] each [undecipherable] Dollars Cents to 34.000 lbs @ 5/4 is 2029. 39 40.000 lbs of Flour arrived in Camp the [1^st?] of November from which [undecipherable] three days full allowance for the troops was issued the remainder was on the field and lost in the action of the 4^th ___ On the 2^d point he observes — that from the 19 Oct. to the fatal 4^th of November, all the transportation of Provisions [strikethrough: was performed] nearly was performed by Horses belonging to the Public in the Q Master Department — as M. Cribbs with about 100 enfeebled Horses [strikethrough: the remains] of those belonging to the Contractor made from [undecipherable] to the Army one trip with a small load — And some Provisions about the same time were brought on Horses, and in Waggons at the expense of the Contractor from Fort Washington to Fort Hamilton — but no further — About three hundred Horses belonging to the Public were employed during the above time — On the 3^d point M^r Hodgdon [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that he has no knowledge of any Horses lost by the Contractor, otherwise than by [underline: straying] during the whole campaign — [Received State [undecipherable] Nov. 8 [undecipherable] [undecipherable]] [Marginal notes:] Patrick Bowns — Benjamin Morgan at Coopers Creek — He denies knowing the people on the other side of the way — Says the two Men were Country Men — [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] Philadelphia 9 November 1794 I have received your Note enclosing three questions relative to the Contractor's account for 1791 — To the first I reply that by my Statement made at the time it appears that the following Provisions were lost on the 4^th of November of that year — First — 116 Oxen estimated at 370 each — say 34.000 lbs @ 5/4 is — 2029. 39 Dollars and Cents — On the 1^st of November 40,000 lbs weight of Flour arrived in Camp from which within two or three Days allow ance was issued, the remainder was lost — On the 2^d question I observe that