[Addressed: Samuel Hodgdon Esquire / (Philadelphia) / postal notations upper right, partially illegible] Pittsburg 25^th Dec^r 1795 Sir I have received your letter of the 18^th Instant together with the news papers and two [undecipherable] which shall go forward this day by a careful [undecipherable] Thomas Martin has delivered me a Duz of Wine for the Carriage of which I have paid him twenty four dollars I have to beg of you to pay the necessary attention to my Requisition to enable me to close the transactions of the year and of course enable the Quarter Master General to close his accounts with the Auditors I am, Sir, Your very Ob^t [undecipherable: signature] Samuel Hodgson Esq Philadelphia