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Messrs Tait and Stothart Merchants in Nashville having lodged in my hands one thousand six hundred dollars to comit to their friends Mess Henry J Boggs Merchants in Philadelphia, Told promise to execute their orders as soon as the Secretary of War directs me to draw on him for the payment of the Army, and to be accountable to Messrs Tait and Stothart for the above sum, having signed Duplicates [signed] David Henley Agt War

Knoxville State Tennessee

12 8 March 1799