Enclosed you have William Turners, John Lefbarys &Henry Millers receipt for forty Dollars paid each of them, that being the Amount Stopd from them, by you on settlement under an apprehension that further advances might have been made here on their orders. Your Account is debited with the Amount — I am Sir Your most Obedient Servant Samuel Hodgdon Major Isaac Craig Philadelphia 23^d Nov^r 1798 Sir, The advances to the Shipwrights employed with you being continued under their former orders I enclose the duplicates of payments made that you may make the Stoppages on adjustment of the respective Accounts to which they belong — These payments are immediately charged to your Account as money forwarded of course the receipts are taken in your name — this mode has ben pursued in every similar instance — Our City is once more free of infection and looks alive — Generals Washington, Pinckney and Hamilton are arraigning the New Army — the President returns to the City to day — The enclosed will give you a detail of the news — Present my best respects to Charley Brown and tell him we are all well — I am sure he will be glad to hear it — adieu — I am Sir Your Most Obedient Servant Samuel Hodgdon Cap^to Matthew Ernest