Philadelphia 4^th May 1798 Sir, I have received your letter of the 27^th Ultimo — your Bills have been presented and honoured — With respect to the Indian Goods on examination I find all is right; the Bales missing will be with you before this letter, and them you will receive numbered 2 and 3 Wyandots as those numbers are used on the Packages for Pottawattamies as well as Wyandots — When all arrive you will find they agree with the Invoices — Colonel Winthrop Sargent is nominated and it is said will this day be approved by the Senate as Governor of the Mississippi Government — The papers will give you the news — A number of Stores will be on the road immediately intended for the Lakes — I shall hurry the whole forward on Account of the Waters and I hope they will arrive timely to prevent loss of time by the fall of the Waters — I am Sir Your most Obedt Servt Samuel Hodgdon Major Isaac Craig Sir Philadelphia 5^th May 1798 Sir, I have determined to remove the Rock & Shell[undecipherable] at your Furnace belonging to the United States, to this City — Having no particular correspondent near the Furnace I must trouble you to procure the means and mode of transportation — Will you be kind enough to have them hauled to the lines and there loaded and forwarded to the address of John Harris Public Store Keeper in this City, they may be unloaded at the landing nearest to our Stores & from thence hauled to them — the Expence incurred I will pay on sight — I am Sir Your most Obedt Servant Samuel Hodgdon M^r Daniel Verue Olney Furnace