[Address: Samuel Hodgdon Esquire / Philadelphia] [Postal stamp: PITTSG P MAY 16] [Notation upper right, partially legible: No. [undecipherable] / [circled: 769] / rec'd the [undecipherable] 1800] [Received [undecipherable] 1810.] Pittsburgh 16 May 1800 Sir, I have received your letters of the 18 Ult^o & 9 inst, the former I presume has stopped some time at one of the Post Offices — [strikethrough: I feel happy indeed that Col^o Pickering continues in Office —] pray is there any probability that Henry Knox may again fill his old station? Mr M^cHenry I suppose has found the duty too weighty for him — The return promised by my last I have not been able to compleat, being engaged in making a settlement with Capt. Heron A. Q. M. or Storekeeper. I wrote Col^o. Forrest by last post to transfer his power of attorney to you I presume he will call upon you the first time he is in town — I wish you would take the trouble once more before the Secretary of War retires from Office, to ask him for a decision on my old claim for compensation for services in Ordnance & Clothing departments I am Sir, your Obg^d. Servant Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r. Isaac Craig: