[Colonel Williams Q [undecipherable] [undecipherable] 1800] [Q Dep[t] for [undecipherable] Samuel Hodgdon Esquire [undecipherable] of Stores Philadelphia] [Received from: St[?] Dec[?] Nov. 24 [undecipherable] R.P.O. 40130.] Springfield June 5^th, 1800. Sir, By the Mail this day from Boston, Have received your letter of the 28^th ultimo enclosing two thousand Dollars in Post Notes, on account of this Armory. The irregular manner of forwarding letters from the South and for this Post, by the way of Boston still continues — I am apprehensive the directions to the Post master at Hartford are not sufficiently explicit, or else they have not been duly attended to — The additional risk of remitting money for this Department in this round about way, is truly alarming & embarrassing — Your letter of notice dated 26^th ulto came to hand in the same irregular way. I am Sir with the greatest respect Your Obedient servant Joseph Williams Samuel Hodgdon Esquire