Accuracy of Invoices
Document 1797Requests information on arrival of Indian goods, specifically for the Ottawa and Chippewa Nations. Cited omissions on invoices, acknowledged mistakes would be made during events of expedited shipment. Noted Congress kept Hodgdon's office busy, requesting estimates daily but little happens as a result.
Philadelphia 23d June 1797 Sir, I have your letter of the 16th instant. A Duplicate of the Delaware cash invoice is enclosed. Bale No. 1. Ottawa and Box No. 5 Chippewa I presume will be received before this Letter. Of this you will please to advise me–The fifty handkerchiefs stands right in the Cash Invoice tho’ omitted in the invoice forwarded with the Goods–The blankets also as they stand in the cash invoice is right–ten pieces containing twenty each make the number charged–In the hurry of sending away small mistakes may be expected, and I am pleased you note them–The advance to Dobbins shall be placed to your Credit– The Medicine, Stationary and Quarter Masters Stores are generally forwarded, or I should with pleasure have caused them it to be packed as requested–The wine had slipped my memory, it shall be on the way shortly– Congress keep us extremely busy–Estimates almost dayly–Yet little comes of them. Adieu. Your most Obedient Servant Samuel Hodgdon Major Isaac Craig
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