Pittsburgh 14^th Feb. 1800 Sir I have received Your letter of the 7^th instant, accompanied by one addressed to Capt. Turner which I have sent him and shall deliver Your Message to him this Evening — I am sorry that any difficulty has occurred in the way of obtaining the Land Warrant on Johnstons Claim I had presumed that the Letter of Attorney & Instrument after sent you amounted to a sufficient proof of the man & Validity of his Claim, but should they both prove insufficient You will please to return them to me — I have not had an opportunity of seeing nor obtaining A Draft from the [undecipherable] Gen. this morning he told me he would send it to me perhaps it may come before the Mail Close if not it shall certainly be obtained to Morrow & sent by next Post or private hand should such an opportunity to one of [us] sooner offer. Pray what prospect is there of the Secretary ever coming to a decision on my [undecipherable] Claim I frequently write to him but he Seldom deigns to acknowledge my lette[r] his predecessor did not treat me thus — The Snow is now deeper here than the Oldest Inhabitants of this Country remembers to have seen before and River at [undecipherable] with Ice — I am with Respect [to] you [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Craig Saml Hodgdon Esq. Philadelphia [Cover notations: Pittsburgh Feb 14 1800 / Received / In Service [undecipherable] / [postal stamps: 45½ / FEB [undecipherable]]]