[62] Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r Philadelphia [postal stamp] [199] [Endorsed: True Copy / [undecipherable] to my [undecipherable] / and payment of the [undecipherable] / for [undecipherable] —] Pittsburgh, 1^st Nov^r 1799 Sir I have received Your favour of the 25^th Ultimo by which I have the mortification of being afsured that we are to be Governed by a man not of our Choice — With respect to Clothing All that intended for the Troops N. West of this place has been pushed forward immediately and is now well advanced on its way to Dehoit and that destined, in the Posts on Ohio & Misisifi will be forwarded with the first rise of Water — it appears that Cloathing is arrved for all the Posts as low on the Mississippi as Fort Pickering, pray how is the Post at Walnut Hills to be supplied — I am paying attention to Your Requisition of March last and shall make an arrangement with the Q. M. Gen to refund to You the Ballance standing on our private Account, — I had Expected that the Amount of my Clames for services in Commisary Department would before this time have come into Your Hands together with the Amount of its Claims — am with great respect Sir Your Devoted Servant [undecipherable] Sam^l Hodgdon Esq^r Philada