Transporting the Clothing to Elizabeth Town

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[Lieut Horatio Dayton 14^th Feb^y 90 Rec^d 15 — 10 [27½]] ElizeTown, Feb. 14 — Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r Philadelphia Elizabeth Town 14^th Feb^y 1790 Sir I received your letter of the 9^th inst the day before yesterday, in which you wish me to inform if there is a pressing necessity for Clothing at this place. I do not want them yet, but Probably may in the course of the week. If you should wait for the river to open I may not get them this month, as the sleighing is now good I should suppose it would be attended with very little more expence to send them all the way by land, than to send them to Trenton & from there here, by land —— I am Sir Your Most Obed^t Serv^t Horatio G Dayton Lieut^s M^r Samuel Hodgdon

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There is not a pressing necessity for clothing at Elizabeth Town but it will be needed soon. Rather than waiting for the river to open, and since the sleighing is now good, it might not involve much additional expense to send them all the way by land instead of by Trenton.