[Docket notation: [undecipherable] Craig / [undecipherable] 1800 / Rec^d [undecipherable] 24 [undecipherable]] [Administrative stamp: Received from State Dep't. Nov. 2[undecipherable] [undecipherable]. R.P.C.401810] [Document number: 194] Pittsburg, 17^th Oct^r. 1800 Sir I have received Your letter of the 10^th instant Enclosing Cap^t Turner's Rec^t of Sundries purchased by You for him and which he will immediately be enabled to Pay — Herewith You will find A Gen^l Return of Ordnance Stores & Clothing at this Post for the Last three Months Ending with Sep^t. 1800 accompanied by Abstracts of Receipts & Issues of Stores in these Departments during that Period together with the corresponding Vouchers of Issues Numbered from one to forty one inclusive Ordnance Stores — I hope the Secretary of War will be more attentive to Your representation of my Claims then his predecessor. I am Sorry indeed to give you so much trouble in this Business. and that I should not again urge it were I not Sensible that You are the only person in public Office at present fully acquainted with the nature & Extent of my Claim and of the Services I have rendered to the United States. The Packet now transmitted to You Contains Documents of very considerable transactions altogether distinct from the Quarter Master Department and thus You will please to represent to the Secretary of War — Our Ellection is over the Democrats have carried their point Gallatin is reelected — Col^t Hamtramck Set out on Tuesday last for Merrietta to return in two Weeks — M^r Tracey is not yet returned but shortly Expected — I am Sir Your Obedient Servant Isaac Craig [NB I have retained the Voucher of Issues of Clothing untill a Settlement is made with Cap^t Nance who is Shortly to be at this Post —] Sam^l Hodgdon Esq^r Philad^a