Philadelphia 8 Sept^r 1798 Sir, Among other articles ordered for a Officer is a Horseman sent with a fifty and Six Common Tents — these you will please to furnish, every thing else is on the road, and the Officer himself with his Suite will follow in eight or ten Days — The little of wanting a Post to this Horseman and Tent but I think if three of the Common tents are booked it will answer as well — A[s] soon the incits on it when he arrives you can have it Done — This goes out to Meet the Spanish Commissioners and run the Southern line of the United States — 'tis a business of importance — I am, Your Most Obedient Servant Samuel Hodgdon Major Isaac Craig —