[undecipherable] Pittsburg 16^th April 1799. Sir Your Letter of the 19^th inst is this Moment received Within a few days past a considerable quantity of Hospital Stores and Medicines have come to hand a part of which I have already sent onward and am preparing the Ship the remainder. But am unable to determine to what Post to address some of the Articles viz Kegs of Medicine &c which are marked Fort Massac & West florida — I presume neither the Purveyor nor the Apothecary can expect that I am to open the Packages at this place & apportion the articles therein contained to Massac & Loftus Heights which it is probable are the posts for which the Medicine & Hospital Stores are ultimately intended & which are more than 1.000 Miles apart.— On the 22^d Inst. I sent forward the [undecipherable] [undecipherable: Stores?] to Rofs in charge of Cap^t Daniel Bibile addressed to the Commanding Officer at Fort Chupac I am Sir with great esteem Your obed serv^t [undecipherable] Samuel Hodgdon Philadelphia —