[Received from State Dep[artmen]t B.P.O. 24] [Colonel Samuel Hodgdon Arch Street Philadelphia] [from 3] --- Phila June 26. 1798 On my going [undecipherable] I [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [transmit?] [undecipherable] Walter & Williams [undecipherable] from them to [undecipherable] [General?] [Dean?] — [circumstances?] [make?] [matters?] [necessary?] this is to [find?] the most [easy?] [undecipherable] [could?] have been [made?] and [with?] [any?] other to [further?] instructions in this [subject?] [I refer?] you to [undecipherable] Williams, who [appears?] to be in Philadelphia [about?] the [15?] July — [If?] [found?] James W. M^cAllot still [with?] [us?] — [one?] of the late firm of [Rains?] W. M^cAllot & Co. is no more — The suit [lately?] argued [before?] the [3?] parties without a jury [appears?] to [be?] to [purchase?] the [different?] or public [General?] in the house of [force?] and [acted?] admirably by [General?] and [here?] [we?] [computed?] [from?] [T.P.?] [Brother?] all their Property [honorable?] [money?] and accountable to the United States and this [estimate?] [mentioned?] to the [benefit?] of [my?] [money?] — his [one?] purpose in this [subject?] [such?] left in [many?] hands [for?] to [reparation?] [amount?] to be [affirmed?] — The suit initiated by [some?] [General?] [Assistant?] [Commissioner?] against [Silas?] [Deane?] [family?] required all [their?] [able?] to be found of the public [behalf?] of [some?] and [their?] to [what?] by reason they are all in [my?] hands — on their [coming?] to Pittsburgh — there [they?] [with?] the [multiplying?] committee and the [able?] [obtained?] to you [would?] be most [promising?] — during this [Christian?] [bill?] [would?] of the to me [suffer?] a [good?] [good?] [officer?] who [of?] shall duly [be done?] — The [third?] recommendations [come?] highly acceptable to you most [Col?] [Alexander?] [Hamilton?] — [undecipherable] [Dang?]