[undecipherable] To Samuel Hodgdon Esq. [Intendant] of Stores at Philadelphia Pittsburg 27 February 1789 Your letter of the 13^th instant is just received — with respect to the Cannon Carriages a considerable part of the Timber has been on hand nearly two years and the remainder of the best White Oak, both the Carpenter and Smiths work is now doing in the best manner Capt Read has not been enabled to discharge his note but says it shall be paid out of the first money that comes to hand and I presume he will perform that promise — The fish you mention has not come to hand — I am glad that Congress have at last determined the important point with respect to a President — Notwithstanding we may not have got the man we wished to rule over us — In my last I mentioned the Q.M General's opinions with respect to compensation for my Services in Ordnance department to being obtained through your hands — Pray take this business into consideration — there certainly can be no impropriety in your paying an Officer employed in the Ordnance department at this post more than at any other post — General Wilkinson sets out to morrow or next day for the seat of Government — his Lady continues here — Major Burbeck arrives here on the 23^d and is to descend to the cantonment in the Ohio [undecipherable] [together] with Capt Russell [Bassett?] and [undecipherable] It is strongly impressed on my mind that I shall not be continued in Service under the new administration even should the present Quarter Master General be continued. — As I at present stand in the way of some of his own Creatures — From this consideration, I am anxious to have my old claims settled if possible in the course of next month I am &c J.C.