[Docket notation, rotated:] Richbill [& undecipherable] / April 25. 1799 / Inclosing bill of Lading for / the [undecipherable] on board / Capt [undecipherable] Schooner / [undecipherable] [Address panel:] Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r / Philadelphia [Below address panel:] p [undecipherable] / Cap Jackson Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r New York April 25^th 1799 Sir We inclose a bill of Lading of 17 Pieces of kentledge, Shipped on board, Schooner Weymouth Capt. Jackson. It would have been sent sooner, but since the River has opened we have requested two persons to carry it, but they had so much freight engaged they could not take it. We are your friends & Serv^ts N.B. Mayor Shutt but a few Richbill & Mel Smith days since mentioned to us the Situation of Some Shot belong- ing to the US as worthy [undecipherable] & desired us to mention it when we again should write to [Phil.]