From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Hodgdon, 7 October 1794
To Samuel Hodgdon
Carlisle [Pennsylvania] October 7. 1794
Sir
It is with distress I find that the troops are every where a head of their supplies. Not a shoe, blanket or ounce of ammunition destined for this place is yet arrived—except what Mr. Wright1 conductor for the Pensylvania division brought on with him. I begin to fear infidelity in some of your conductors of Waggons. For Heaven sake send forward a man that can be depended upon on each route to hasten them on. My expectations have been egregiously disappointed.
With consideration & esteem I am sir Your obed ser
A Hamilton
Samuel Hodgsdon Esq
ALS, Broadcast Music, Inc., New York City.
1. John Wright. See John Scull to Isaac Craig, July 1, 1792 (Neville B. Craig, The History of Pittsburgh with a Brief Notice of Its Facilities of Communication and Other Advantages for Commercial and Manufacturing Purposes [Pittsburgh, 1917], 201–02).