[Pages of this document are wholly or in part illegible.] Pittsburg 26 Oct 1798 — Dear Sir. By Your letter of the 19^th instant the [undecipherable] received I have the pleasing information of You & family [undecipherable] in Health amidst the Gen'l Calamity. I have authority from the Quarter Master G[undecipherable] direct You to Send forward without delay the [undecipherable] —ided in consequence of Gen'l Wilkinson's Requisition, notwi—standing the Extract of the D.M. Gen'l letter transmitted to You inserted in my letter of the 12^th instant — I believe the D.M. Gen'l Expects to Set out for the [undecipherable] of Government in A few days & Probably will see you before he returns — [undecipherable] one that Our Coffe is nearly Expended I have there[fore] of You to procure & Send forward A Supply — I am. Dear Sir. your Obedient [To be forward] [undecipherable] Sam'l Hodgdon Esq'r Philad'a [undecipherable postal notation] [391] Sam'l Hodgdon Esq'r Philadelphia [Received from State [undecipherable] Nov. [undecipherable] R.P.O. 401810.]