[Address panel, exterior of letter:] [undecipherable] Col. Hodgdon Philadelphia [undecipherable: postal endorsements and docket] Cincinnati 23^d Day October 1796 — Although I have been only one half hour arrived ( ) from a long and very fatiguing journey which has engaged me almost three months — you my Dear Sir I can not fore the Opportunity by M^r McCullough of paying my best respects to you M^rs Hi and your Family, any of whom share liberally in my good wishes and Confidence. — I say nothing of the [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] [undecipherable] I have been under because I have [undecipherable] a sufficient time to be [undecipherable] — you can not have much Leisure but you know you have [undecipherable] to signify your pleasure to be furnished with the details — A M^r McHenries has gone more further Hon to the [undecipherable] many travels [undecipherable] to have been as public as any [undecipherable] many [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] various [undecipherable] think he was every where and received in [undecipherable] or, I am told, [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable]; just came and went [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] me his [undecipherable] very too [undecipherable] on a or [undecipherable] — McCullough will take every thing — The less in your [undecipherable] I wish to come my indeed I suspected it in some [undecipherable] part — M^r [undecipherable] promised to send me a [undecipherable] as [undecipherable] as [undecipherable] — I give you [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] meets the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] of their I [undecipherable] but put them in order and [undecipherable] — [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] I am [undecipherable] sincerely yours W^m Sargent Please send this one line [undecipherable] by a private hand — I hope M^rs H[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] some [undecipherable] that would make him more —