Philad^a October 10^th 1798 Sir By Stage you will receive this accompanied with a Box to your address containing Six Charleville Muskets to serve as Patterns for those Contracted for at your Post for the United States. The deranged state of things here on account of the deadly malady has prevented their being sooner forwarded — Will thank you to acknowledge the receipt of them and let me know when they get to hand — I am Sir Your most Obedient Servant Samuel Hodgdon John Hilty Esq^r Philad^a 10^th October 1798— Sir James Hartford Waggoner has this day delivered me three Parcels to your address, which he received of Major Isaac Laer for General Wilkinson at Pittsburgh — To accommodate you I have them at Dunwoody's Inn High Street sign of the Eagle — The Transportation say [undecipherable] = 4 D^ls a hundred, which be pleased to send me when you send for the Casks to enable me to settle with the Waggoner — I hope Yourself and family are well — the fever to day is again rather unfavourable — more deaths and new Cases than for several days preceeding I am Sir Your most Obed^t Servant Samuel Hodgdon Jonathan Williams Esq.