[Docket on address panel, written vertically: Isaac Craig / Col. [undecipherable] / certifying [undecipherable]] [Postmark stamp] [Left margin notation: Private [undecipherable] / [undecipherable]] Samuel Hodgdon Esq Philadelphia Pittburgh 17^th Jan'y 1800 Sir Your letter of the 10^th instant is this moment come to hand — and I assures you my Dear Friend, that I feel very Sollicitous to have a Settlement of my Public transactions upto the Commencement of the present Year — but I find it a much more Arduous task than I had any Idea of, to recur to so many minute former transactions — but notwithstanding considerable progress is already made & the whole will Shortly be Completed — All the Stores destined for the Posts on the Ohio & Mississippi that had come to hand previous to the Rivers being Obstructed have gone forward — Since which Hospital Stores for Massac & Chicasaw Bluffs have arrived and will be Shipped for their destination as Early as possible — You will find Enclosed W^m Cook's Receipt for two small Kegs containing Cranberries — the produce of the Peninsula of Lake Erie called Presque Isle be pleased to accept of one of the Kegs & if you please send the other as Addressed to M'rs Helms Race Street No 86 — I observe since the Public Stores have come through the Hands of M^r James Miller the same pains is not taken as formerly in inserting in the Invoices the Weights of Each Article and which is Peculiarly necessary to Enable me to detect fraud & Embezlement by the Waggons which Sometimes takes place particularly in Hospital Stores — I am Respectfully Sir your Obedient Servant Isaac Craig Sam^l Hodgdon Esq^re Philad^a