[Received / State Dep't. / Nov. 24, 1894. / B.P.O. 401810.] [189] [Address: Samuel Hodgdon Esqr. Philadelphia] Pittsburgh 24^th August 1799 Sir I have received Your letter of the 16^th instant Covering a letter Addressed to M^r Jonathan [undecipherable] Detroit which I Shall forward by a Safe Conveyance on monday next— The Returns in future Shall be made to Your Office as you have directed — Your information of the Feaver having Entirely dis-appeared affords very great pleasure & I hope that pleasure will not again be interrupted — Lieu^t. Jno Callender Just arrived from Detroit informs that Col^t [undecipherable] is on his way to this place and is to continue here during the Ensuing fall & Winter. The inhabitants of the N Western Territory appear, by a letter from Governor St Clair. are [alarmed] much, by the recent Conduct of the Shawanese & some of the other Tribes — A few days ago two men on their way from Kentucky to this place were killed on [undecipherable: probable reading Zanes] Road near Muskingum it is Said by Indians, although it is conjectured by Some People A Considerable Sum of Money that then travilers were known to Poses might have Induced conspiring [undecipherable] white men to have Committed the Murder — I am Sir with great Esteem Your Obedient Servant [Isaac Craig] Sam^l Hodgdon Esq^r. Philade.