Sir Pittsburg 30 June 1797 Your letter of the 13th instant by Mr. Peter Petit has been handed to me by him and I have not nor shall I neglect to pay him every necessary attention he is already accommodated with a boat and expects to embark tomorrow. Your letter of the 23. Covering four cash Invoices, viz: Delaware, Pottawatmi, Kickapoo & Weea Indian Goods is received On the 24th Robert Cochean Waggoner arrived and delivered Bale No 1 Ottawa & Box No 5. Chipewa Indian Goods together with the sail duck Planks anchors &ca for the Sloop Detroit in good order and on the 27. articles were shipt for Le Boeuf I have this day to accommodate Captain Alexander Fowler drawn on you in his favor for 150 dollars at 5 days sight which be pleased to pay and charge as usual I expect that the Secretary of War would have had leisure in the course of more than a whole year to have decided on my claim of compensation for services in the Cloathing and Ordnance departments. His thus delaying a decision appears somewhat like a contemptuous treatment of my application be pleased to call upon him again at a proper time And I have also to beg of you to take the trouble of calling upon Edmund Physick agent for the late Proprietors of Pennsylvania, and endeavor to negociate a purchase of a small Tract of land in Pittsbg Manor being a part of the face of the Coal hill the enclosed draft extracted from the General Plan shews that it contains 37 acres 130 perches together with 5 lots of 8 perches each making in the whole about 48 acres & which the former agents had estimated at one dollar per acre, but as I have now an opportunity of improving it to considerable advantage I wish you to purchase it at any price not exceeding 5 dollars per acre It is probable that Mr. Physick may be unacquainted that there is not an acre of tillable Land on all that tract the whole of it being a precipice and not at all valuable to Pittsburg for the Strata of Coal that it contains the town being more conveniently supplied from the other side of the Manangahela I am Sir, Your obedt & very Hb. Serv I. C. Samuel Hodgdon esq Philadelphia