Notes for Powder and Timber: Page #2

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New York 18 Novr 1799, Samuel Hodgdon [undecipherable] Sir I have recd. your letter of 16th Inst. also are [undecipherable] Pickering. expecting the purchase of powder, & will thank you to inform him. I have effected if, at the price of 35/100 provided it appears on examination to the good __ I would write him, by this days post, but I am called upon by Genl Hamilton to proceed to the Cantonment at Scotch Plains New Jersey and am about setting off immediately, I will do myself the pleasure of writing on my return and attend to his orders respect & the Algurs [undecipherable] The Capt. who gives Capt. Pickering the uniform= [undecipherable] of the oak plank being at the time of Shipping unexceptionable must certainly be so. Judge of the [undecipherable] it is impossible that timber should decay in so short a period, and are [undecipherable] of opinion, it was not sound, when turned into [undecipherable] __ I have not time to add further on this [undecipherable] ___ But