Pittsburg 29 September 1797 Sir Your letter of the 18th + 22nd this moment have come to hand accompanied by a news Paper .. Your letter of the 15th 222 informs me that you were then getting on Hospital Stores Cloathing &ca for the northern posts via Albany + Schenectady Quere are Niagara, Detroit + Michilimacinac, or any of these posts to be supplyed by that route? Early information on this point is of importance in making provision for transportation from this post ~ The quantity of Stationary, writing paper in particular received this season has not been adequate to the necessary consumption of the several posts depending on this I am Sir Your very obedServ

Samuel Hodgdon esq Philadelphia