[Page 56 BJA01] Sir, Philadelphia 11 April 1793. I have at length obtained an order for sending to you One thousand Musket Stocks, and the remaining part of the Iron in Store purchased in consequence of a former Requisition, the opportunity presenting to transport it to any Contiguous Post. I am obligd to avail myself of the old method of sending by the way of New york, and they are shipped accordingly — The Captain has engaged to deliver them to you or your [undecipherable] at Hartford; and as he sails to morrow or next day, I thus advise you that you may be on the look out for their arrival. I am, Sir, your most obedient Servant. Samuel Hodgdon M^r David Arms, Springfield. — Sir, Philadelphia 11 April 1793. Having at the request of the Post master General, waited until this time under an apprehension that a letter forwarded by post on the 4^th March. 1792 to the address of Thomas Wolt ac— this location in Virginia and which contained post notes of your Banks belonging to the United States to the amount of Seven hundred and twenty Dollars and twenty five Cents, which has some since been missing, might and very probably would, return to his Office, about this time with the dead letters; but finding that those Items have generally returned, and have been examined, without making any discovery of the letter in question. — I deem it now my duty to apply to the Bank for payment of the amount of the Notes. Every necessary caution has been used during the time I have been writing on the Post Office to prevent the notes from getting into circulation — Should they have fallen into unknown hands, of which if necessary I can and will produce the evidence — Request Sir that you