Dear Sir Before the inclos'd was sealed I forgot to request you would favour me with a Copy of your Claipes in the M. & D.M. Dep^t. be pleased to forward a Copy as soon as convenient, for I find difficult to adjust my Accounts without one. [undecipherable] about the last of January you shall have my gen[undecipherable: eral] Returns Harper's Ferry December 9^th 1799 Dear Sir M^r Annelly has been absent from [this] place during the month of March, and according to the Secretary's instructions to me, could not be spared for that time, though he alledges he was employed on public duty — [undecipherable] adjustment of his account is that you would certify to me that he was doing public duty at Philad[undecipherable] — that [undecipherable] for the Secretary directed me to suspend payments until that Certificate should be exhibited — If, therefore, you can do it, be pleased to oblige M^r Annelly & me by forwarding [undecipherable] — at the close of [undecipherable] year I shall write to [undecipherable] fully — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Samuel Hodgdon Esquire --- Sir Harper's Ferry December 9 [1799] M^r Mackey has been so kind as to let me write a few lines in his letter to you of this date when I arrived hear I found I could have no accomodation for my family here I therefore returned to Phil[undecipherable] to make them Comfortable there as they wa[undecipherable] [undecipherable] for [the] Journey hear as soon as I advise them they could be Received on my retu[undecipherable] I mediately waited on you and [undecipherable] the nex' day employed by your orders on M^r Nicholson. Then sick[undecipherable] to overhaul the old Musket barr[undecipherable] in the Store near arch Street and afterwards to assist M^r Nicholson inspecting Stocks, Mus[undecipherable] &c and in purchasing Iron for this place in the interim [undecipherable] my Children to board [undecipherable] Motherinlaw Comfortably fixed in New York returned here I hope Sir you will be so Go[undecipherable] as to Give me A Certificate for that Serv[undecipherable] I am Sir Your Very Humble Serv[undecipherable] Th^os Annely Samuel Hodgedon Esq^r