Now I have all pages. Pages 1 and 5 are archival placeholder notices. Page 2 is the degraded outer wrapper/docket. Pages 3–4 are the primary letter (substantially illegible). Pages 6–7 are the cleaner alternate letterbook copy provided to aid decipherment. I'll transcribe the primary document, using the alternate copy to resolve illegible passages. Pittsburg 2^nd Septem 1796 [received from State D. / Nov. 24 / R.P.O. 401810] Sir, Your two letters of the 27^th Ultimo are received in one of which I observe your great attention to my claims for compensation for extra Services - Your perseverence therein will make no doubt be ultimately successful. I shall as you direct call on Doc^tr Pfeiffer for the amount paid by you for transportation of the last parcel of his Stores, viz for Carriage of Cw. 8. 3. 1^lb at 7 dollars per 100^lb Cap^t John Pierce left in my charge one Chest & two Trunks which have been forwarded for him addressed to you in charge of Charles McCormick Waggoner whose Receipt you will find enclosed - Cap^t Pierce I presume will see the transportation paid. This letter is accompanied by an Estimate of objects of Expenditure during the 3^d Quarter of the current year - The amount 14,733 ⁶⁴/100 Dollars - but a balance remains in my hands arising from the amount of former Estimates exceeding the Expenditures - but this balance cannot be ascertained until the accounts of the purchase of Forage in upper Canada and transportation to Detroit - and some other accounts come forward and which I am now looking for. P.S. You will find inclosed a Copy of a letter of Credit from the present [undecipherable] to the Secretary of War in my favor - the original was transmitted on the 8^th of July last. - Be pleased to forward the inclosed letter - I am Sir, yr mo ob. S^t [signature] Sam Hodgdon Esq Phil.