Caldwell expresses his concern regarding Hodgdon's family relative to the spread of yellow fever in Philadelphia. He argues that keeping his family in the city increases everyone's exposure to the contagion.
Cited in Pickering to Hamilton, 08/22/1798. "In writing freely as I have done yesterday [08/21/1798] and today in the undated letter to you, disclosing what is contemplated respeting our military station . . . I consider myself as performing a hazardous duty."
Certification that $615.20 is due the troops at Fort Norfolk in Virginia under the command of Captain Richard S. Blackburn, being the pay of himself and his company, including forage for Surgeon's Mate William Barnwell and the pay of Lieutenant Claiborne and his detachment, for July 1798.
Certification that $469.28 is due a company of Artillerists and Engineers stationed at Fort Wolcott under the command of Captain William Littlefield, being for the pay of himself and the non-commissioned officers and privates through July 1798 and for his subsistence for April through June 1798.
Enclosed is a receipt of John Habersham, dated July 1, 1798, for $17.12 applied by him to defray the incidental and contingent expenses of the War Department in Georgia. This sum he has discounted out of monies arising out of imposts and duties for which he is accountable in pursuance of a warrant to be issued in his favor by the Secretary of War.
