Delivering a Letter to Richard Peters

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Navy Office 9. July 1798 Sir The Secretary of the Navy having a letter to be conveyed immediately to M^r Richard Peters who resides on the other side of Schuylkile, desires me to request, that you would be so obliging as to provide a Man and Horse as soon as convenient for that purpose — I am Sir respectfully your obed^t Serv^t Josiah Fox Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r [Address panel: Navy Office / Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r] [Stamp: Received from State Dep't. Nov. 24, 1894. R.P.O. 401810.] [Circled notation: 248] [Docket, partially legible: undecipherable: probable reading "Copy of July 1798 / want of a horse / [undecipherable]"]

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Autograph Letter Signed

Description

The Secretary of the Navy has a letter to be delivered to Richard Peters who lives on the other side of Schuykill. Hodgdon is to provide a man and horse for that purpose as soon as it is convenient.