[40] [Addressed: Samuel Hodgdon Esquire / Op: Philadelphia] [Notation, upper right: No. [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] 30 / [undecipherable]] Pittsburg 23^rd November 1798 Dear Sir, Your Favour of the 16^th Instant is this Moment come to hand: — M^r [undecipherable] is anxious to see his Family, he is detained only to launch and rigg the Galley but this cannot be compleated untill a Rise of Water in the Allegheny renders it safe to launch her; it is probable that in a few days the present Weather will effect that purpose. — The Ohio in the Memory of the oldest Inhabitants has not been known to continue so long unnavigable — The Cloathing for some of the lower Posts has consequently been detained together with the Stores destined for the Mississippi. — Upon Enquiry I find that I have again to request you to send me a Barrel of Mescorado Sugar our family Store of that Article being expended — I had hoped that yo would have been able to have informed me of the Arrangements making by the great Men in the Q.^r M^r and Ordnance Departments — Sam^l Hodgdon Esq I am Dear Sir You Obed Serv.^t Philad.^a Isaac Craig