Pittsburg, 5^th August 1796 Sir Returned from Presqu'Isle last evening & found here on my absence your letters of the 16 & 21^st ultimo. This has been written by M^r Bates the former enclosing ten bank notes of one hundred dollars each and the letter respecting the period of the vouchers upon the authority of the [Mover?] 2d U.G. — Previous to my setting out to Fort Franklin & Presque & Presqu'isle my accounts of Expenditures at this post were made up to the beginning of July, and my next to those posts had in view a settlement of accounts generally in the S.W. Dep^t up to that period, in order to have them added to my Disbursements Enclosed in my abstract which I intended to have transmitted by this post, but in order to separate the Expenditures of the first Instn. Viz. up to the first of April it is necessary to postpone a transmission of my accounts until next post. Your letter of the 29^th ultimo is this day come to hand enclosing one thousand dollars in ten post notes of 100 dollars each. — I presume a multiplicity of business has prevented you from obtaining the Secretary of War's Determination on my claim for extra Services in the cloathing business Department, although I have no apprehensions of neglect on your part, yet such is a matter of importance to me I am anxious for a decision. I am with Sentiments of great Esteem Sam Hodgdon Esq^r Sir, yr ob. S^t Philad^a [signature]