Delay in Transporting Stores to Natchez

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[Docket: Major Isaac Craig / Pittsburgh / Dec [undecipherable] — / [undecipherable] QuarterMaster / [undecipherable] entertainment / [undecipherable] for his Answer Per] [20] Samuel Hodgdon Esquire Philadelphia Pittsburg 12^th October 1798 Dear Sir, By your letter this moment received, I have the very great pleasure of knowing that you and Family were well on the 5^th Instant — The QuarterMaster General being advised by my letter to him that Gen Wilkinson had transmitted me a Requisition for a considerable Quantity of Stores — (and of which you were informed by my letter of the 12^th Ult^o) directs me to suspend making any further provision in that Business — The following is an extract of the Quarter Master Generals letter viz "By a letter from the General I am informed that he directed you to purchase a number of Articles to be forwarded to Natchez on supposition that I would be on my Way to join him, as I shall be soon at Pittsburg, and as many of these Articles have and shall be sent [strikethrough: forward] from Fort Washington, you will delay the purchase of any part of the Articles untile my Arrival." I cannot determine how far the above Extract ought to affect the Requisition I transmitted to you in obedience to the General's Instructions to me I am Sir, with great respect, your Obed. Servant Isaac Craig Sam^l Hodgdon Esq. Philadelphia

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Though General Wilkinson had transmitted to Craig a requisition for a large quantity of stores to be transported to Natchez, the Quartermaster General has ordered a suspension of that business. Many of these articles will be forwarded from Fort Washington so the purchase should be delayed until the QMG reaches Pittsburgh.