Philadelphia 6^th June 1798. S^r Your letter of the 6. came to hand the [strikethrough: P] instant. I am sorry the Shot and Shells still remain at your furnace. a part of [strikethrough: o] we wanted [undecipherable] immediately. None are to go to Pittsburg we can purchase them there for the price of the transportation, I expect. New Contracts for Shot and Ballast called knowledge will be entered into shortly. As soon as it is determined on I will inform you. I wish to have the Shot you have at the furnace [undecipherable: sent] if need be most sent a more convenient Season. I am for Your Most Obedient Servant Samuel Hodgdon M^r Daniel Vitre Philadelphia 8^th June 1793. Sir In reply your letter [undecipherable] I [undecipherable] authorize you to send us the twelve pounders sold at your furnace, that you promise to me [undecipherable] for millions, of the fact I must convince it, do not reach you. If most [undecipherable] the case. I am aware the request that you would send them to the City at as convenient a dispatch. I know you mention twelve Dollars a ton as the only transportation. Let such wag[undecipherable] carry an invoice of us, and the sum he is to be [undecipherable] to receive and [undecipherable] any [undecipherable] I am S^r Your Most Obedient Servant. Robert Coleman Esq^r Samuel Hodgdon