Philadelphia 12^th April 1799 Dear Sir With this letter you will receive all the invoices for the Annuities due the several Nations of Indians as therein expressed. the whole of the goods are forwarded. A waggoner leaves this day with the medicines to Hospital Stores for the Western Posts. The invoices must be safely sent on with the supplies or the Agents will be at a loss in making the divisions. I have received your letter of the 8^th instant have only time to inform you, that I will attend to every part and reply fully hereafter. Chicasaws Shawanese Miamis Chippewa Ottawa Delaware & Wyandot Pun. Sir your most Obt Serv^t Samuel Hodgdon Major J Craig [Page 425 BJA01] Philadelphia 12 April 1799 Sir, I have forwarded to Col C. Irvines this day a quantity of Medicines and Hospital Stores to be by him shipped to you to put in him as usual for Niagara their destination. I have written to Major Rivardi to inform him of the circumstance that he may know the time they ought to arrive. The moment you receive them you will forward them to Schenectady by a safe conveyance. I hope to hear that these Stores got to hand entire, for fear of damage or embezzlement, and their speedy — Great complaints are made the [strikethrough: porting] the transportation of the public Goods on this route. I hope the present case will be an exception. — I have desired Col Irvines to write to you with the Fees and make the Invoice of them — This you also send on with the Stores — I am Sir, your most Obedient Servant Samuel Hodgdon [Cap^t. Michael Ruddin —]