[On public Service Colonel Williams Palfrey PMG or Tho.^s Reid, Assistant Paymaster General Camp & Cornet Simons at 700,000 dollars] [undecipherable] — 86/12 no[t] [undecipherable] James Nourse Invoice of 700,000 Dollars lent by Joseph Nourse, by order of Congress, to Colonel William [undecipherable] Paymaster General to the Army, under the escort of Cornet Richard Simons and a party of Light Dragoons Packets N^o 1 — 1 Bundle [undecipherable] — $[undecipherable] — 36,000 1 D^o — Bryson & D Huntley — 36,000 1 D^o — [undecipherable] William Hardy — 36,000 1 D^o — S Bryson & D Huntley — 36,000 1 D^o — A^s Hardy & [undecipherable] &co — 36,000 180,000 1 [Bundle] M^rs [undecipherable] Hardy & Merryman — 36,000 1 D^o — Nathaniel P. Kirby — 36,000 1 D^o — [undecipherable] Col. Bryson — 36,000 1 D^o — & Hardy & Rothrock — 36,000 1 D^o — P. Kirby & Rothrock — 36,000 180,000 4 — 1 D^o — Rothrock & P. Kirby — 36,000 1 D^o — [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] — 36,000 1 D^o — Rothrock & W. Wormyer — 36,000 1 D^o — 2 Bryson & J. [undecipherable] — 36,000 & 13 [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Bills — 20,000 164,000 1 D^o — [undecipherable] William Hardy — 36,000 1 D^o — C. [undecipherable] — 36,000 1 D^o — Rothrock & P. Kirby — 36,000 1 D^o — S. Bryson [undecipherable] Huntley — 36,000 1 D^o [undecipherable] & L^r M^r Hardy — 31,920 [undecipherable] — 80. 176,000 4 [in?] Reed. Dollars — 700,000 Sir Philadelphia y^e [undecipherable], 1[7undecipherable] On the other side you have in Invoice for Seven Hundred Thousand dollars which I am directed to transmit for the use of the pay[undecipherable] Department. Cornet Simons escorts the Money to you, to whom you will be pleased to give a Receipt. This money would have been sent to you sooner, but the Demands were too pressing on the Treasury to furnish us with it, before today; I was so [undecipherable] satisfied of your [undecipherable] for, that I g[undecipherable] M^r. Alleyne every [undecipherable]; he has been [undecipherable] also to get it away. The duplicate Receipt for the last money sent you, reached me a few days ago. I am Sir, Your most ob^t hum^le Ser^t Joseph Nourse Paymaster [undecipherable] Col. William Palfrey Paymaster General & Head Quarters