Pittsburgh 26^th Sept^r 1800 Sir Your letters of the 17 & 19 instant are this moment Rec'd With respect to the missing Abstract I shall immediately have a Copy made out & transmitted by next Post — and with respect to taking Credit for Issues of the Clothing Addressed to Cap^t Vance I observe the impropriety of including the Issues of it in my Gen^l Returns & Abstracts, & have to beg of You to return me the Vouchers relative thereto in order that I may be Enabled to settle that Clothing Acc^t with Cap^t Vance On the day before Yesterday all the Annuities for the Northern & Western Indian Nations were sent forward via Presque Isle for Detroit — The Annuities for the Choctaws & Chickasaws will Descend the Ohio in a few days — Major [undecipherable] Porter together with his late Company now under the Command of Cap^t Muhlenberg together with Cap^t Strong's Company of first Reg^t are now on the move for Niagara — I trust you will have an opportunity of seeing the Secretary of War and of obtaining his approbation of my old Claim and you will please to observe to him That I am hitherto continuing to perform the Duty of Commissary of Military Stores & Clothes depending on an adequate Compensation being made me or pointed out by Col^o Pickering, but if that Cannot be Granted some Person ought to be Appointed to do that Duty as at other Posts — I am Sir Your Obedient Servant Isaac Craig Sam^l Hodgdon Esq^r Philad^a