[undecipherable] [undecipherable] have received your [undecipherable] — thank — thank you for the information relative to Gov[ernor] nor Sargents business — it will be unfortunate indeed if by the weather he should again lose his property he that has suffered more dep[undecipherable] by transportation than any person I have forwarded [undecipherable] for [undecipherable: re?]promulgation you of the Doings of the Great Council — the Secretary of the Navy with the Secretary of State, the Quarter Master General and a few other friends dine with me to morrow — tis possible some information may then be obtained on the intrest of [undecipherable] in acquiring should that be the case I will communicate it, the Secretary of the Navy mentioned to me yester day confidentially, that he should report for [undecipherable] funds to support our present Naval armament and an addition of twelve Sail of the Line — I wish you to inform Major [Rubt.?] Patrice that I have received his letter of the 4 instant this day, and that as [undecipherable] I have informed myself on the subjects mentioned in it, I will write him — The Quarter Master [General?] has brought on Wilsons account as Certified by Major [undecipherable: Kilpatrick?], and I shall make an attempt to get it Settled — In your next please to send me an ac- count of Governor Sargents property forwarded [undecipherable] by Judge Ditton, or any other person and the time they went on — If I find those articles may not have got to [undecipherable] I shall send a duplicate of them by a Ship about to Sail [for undecipherable] — a contract may be [undecipherable: entered?] into for [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to the Natchez by that route at the rate of [undecipherable] Dollars a ton — tis probable we may make the experiment — adieu — I am Sir, your Most Obedient Servant Samuel Hodgdon [Address:] Major Isaac Craig