[undecipherable] [Address:] Samuel Hodgdon Eqr / Philadelphia / [Mail] [Docket, upper right:] [undecipherable] / Carlisle Barracks / 29 July 1799 / [undecipherable] D Sir, Carlisle Barracks Jul. 29. 1799 The agent of the Proprietors of Mess Penns is at this place now Disposing of the lots and commons as their is a great many applications for lots more than their is ground the have applies for some of the public [undecipherable] — you recollect the claim the [undecipherable] people had for the ground along the Spring — the now claim the Bake house and coal house and all the ground along the Spring in front of the buildings close up to them and has actually made application for it So you will be pleased to forward the [undecipherable] that I left with you. Indu-ding the ground purchases from Holmes and any [undecipherable] you have about the claim of the public ground as Col Alexander is the surveyor for Mr [undecipherable] he wishes the [undecipherable] as soon as possible you can [undecipherable] it — every person thinks it is fair to take what the can off the public — it was a great neglect in Cap^t [undecipherable] to suffer Wilson to get Possession of that ground it was a trick of his altogether and I think he has no legal [undecipherable] — whatever Col Alexander and [undecipherable] is the persons who values the lots [undecipherable] you want to forward the papers that the may do the public ground first — any Instructions that may be forwarded concerning the ground I will pay particular attention to I am Sir with &c — Samuel Hodgson Eqr [undecipherable]