New York 19 Oct^r /99 Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r Sir Your favor of 18^th Ins^t is duly received, and I will thank you to remit me the Ballance of Harroys and the same by Mondays Mail, as I am much in want of Cash at this Present time — I have furnished Capt Freemans Compy with the Coats; as his Company will set off on their march to Harpers Ferry near on the Potomack River he may probably call on you for the remaining articles, which you will please deliver, I am in Haste, Your Ob^t Serv^t Cont Burns [Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r Philadelphia] [cont^l [undecipherable] 1799 Hides]