Philadelphia 18^th May 179[undecipherable] Sir The Post this morning brought me your letter of the 11^th instant. I am sorry to find that any part of the Ordnance Goods are yet on the road, they ought to have been with you at the time you wrote. the detention of the Trucks shall be made a subject of enquiry. With [undecipherable: respect?] to your Commissary Accounts Major Kirkpatrick could surely have informed you the reason they were not adjusted, as he well knows that from the first [undecipherable] of M^r Grays [undecipherable] to the present day on[e] clerk has been employed with him in examining and stating his accounts. The press of business in my office has found full employment for the other two clerks for the same period of time. This circumstance accounts for your claims for services on that Department being unpaid, it will necessarily remain so until the Provision Account is adjusted, as was the case with Kirkpatricks own, no time shall be unnecessarily lost in making the settlement and when effected you shall be notified. I will endeavour to make an arrangement for discharging your debt to Col. Forrest. The drafts you mention have been presented & honored. Enclosed you have an invoice of Stores forwarded by Daniel Fisher, who left this city two days ago, and by mistake left the Invoice on my desk. You have also a letter enclosed for Governor Sargent which you will please to forward to him as early as possible. Report this morning says our Commissioners have had an audience with the French Republic. Enclosed you have Captain Halls Account, which you will recollect you were [undecipherable: confirmed?] was charged to your Account. [Enclosed you have the receipts for the last payments made to the [undecipherable] board] I am Sir Your most Obedient Servant Samuel Hodgdon Major Isaac Craig