Philadelphia 3 October 1800 I have received your letter of the 26 ultimo — Enclosed you have the requested Clothing Vouchers to enable you to settle with Captain Vance — Am glad to find all the Ammu nition are gone forward — Major Porter it seems is to command at Niagara — what is to become of Ricardo's? — The Secretary of War has not yet been able to pay us the intended visit — when he does I shall state your claim to him and endeavour to have a decision on it — The city remains remarkably healthy, and business is very brisk — more than forty arrivals from different quarters of the [undecipherable] yesterday — you mention nothing of Captain Dunner's Hore account — He has written in another [undecipherable] your most Ob^t and [undecipherable] servant Major Isaac Craig — Samuel Hodgdon