[Wrapper, address panel:] [Docket, rotated:] Major Craig / 5^th May 1799 / No. Pit[—] / [undecipherable] [Stamp:] Received From State Dep[artmen]t Nov. 2[?] [1]8[?] Samuel Hodgdon Esq^re Philadelphia Pittsburg 5^o May 1799 Sir I have just received Your letter of the 26^th [ult.] Covering Six Invoices of Indian Annuities and A Letter Addr[essed] to Cap^t Earnest which shall go forward without delay, together with such of the Indian Invoices as are to be sent by that Rout: — I am Sorry M^r Withros is so much Engages in Philad^a. I presume M^r Harris [could find one] to Supply his place and I hope he will be so obliging that M^r Withro Still be inclined to Accept of my invitation — I am now about making a Settlement with the [Q.] M Gen^t. and Shall transmit You a Statement of it in order That a Settlement of Accounts betwixt You and me be regulated thereby. As I Apprehend that, I may have given the [undecipherable: probable reading "Dep^tly"] Gr[edit,] Sums which You may have Charged to our Private Acc^t. I am S^r Your Very Obedient Humble Serv^t [undecipherable: probable reading "I. Craig"] Hodgdon Esq^r Philad^a