[Per-Perris] Philadelphia March 21^st 1789 I stand responsible in the payment of thirty dollars to Mess^rs Fitton and Smith of this City in Goods sold to W^m Graner and Joseph Tumberlake late Privates in the Corps of Guards — there from Fitton were fur-nished and jas: green Camps without him laying on accounts of the late year — Telling him Captain had — the Money in his hands and he promised me Some time ago that he would give you thirty dollars in part of what he has received on their accounts — if he has not done it, I beg you will see him and negotiate the matter before you have the North River — I have no [undecipherable] way of getting this affair settled but thro you — God bless you J^r Christie [address panel:] John Pierce Esq^r: Esquire [endorsement, sideways:] from M^cChristie 1 March 1789