[Postal wrapper: [circular postmark seal, NEW YORK APR 11]; address: [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] / Philadelphia; docket annotation upper right: [undecipherable] — 11] [Received stamp: Received / from / State Da[p]. / Nov [undecipherable] / [file number]] New York 11^th April 1800 Samuel Hodgson Esq^r Sir, I have seen the Capt. & Owner of the Schooner Juliana, now bound to New Orleans — they purpose to commence loading tomorrow & will positively sail on [undecipherable: stamp covers text] next. They have consented to accommodate your [undecipherable] with a passage, fifty Dollars each, & to pay their proportion of Stores — with a proviso, that, they be on here. by [underline: monday], — on receipt of this you urge the necessity of their making dispatch — M^r [undecipherable] arrived in town last evening from Albany. he confirms what I [undecipherable] to you in my last, respecting the Shot which may be deposited on Governors Island — I am Sir Yours Respect^fy [undecipherable] P.T.C. P.S. I was this morning favored with a letter from M^r Mackey, on the subject of his friends passage — the Accommodation of the Vessel is good — She is small, — and one day will complete her loading [remainder of postscript undecipherable]