Boston March 8^th 1784 [undecipherable] by Corporal received — by the bearer Cap^t Pierce I forward you fifty five dollars & [undecipherable] twenty [undecipherable] five hundred[s] [undecipherable] Wars, which sum is in full of the two thousand [forty?] dollars you Sent me by Cap^t Haywood in Morris notes to be exchanged into hard money for the use of the Troops in Service I give Cap^t Haywood a receipt for the within mentioned sum of two thousand forty dollars in Morris notes, if [undecipherable] that a receipt in your [undecipherable] you to [undecipherable] to deliver it to [undecipherable] If I can be of any [Service] to you, or the Troops [undecipherable] in this quarter, I [shall embrace] the opportunity. I intend [sending] this by the last of next month The news of the day, I refer you to the papers inclosed my friend I will — I am with the highest esteem, you regard y[our] [undecipherable] [signature: undecipherable] [John Pierce Esq^r Pay Master [undecipherable] Nov [undecipherable] by [undecipherable]]