[Major Chas Magill A.D.C. [to Gen.] Gates] No. 25 [undecipherable] [Expense account with columnar entries — largely undecipherable] Winchester April 14^th 1784 Dear General By the enclos'd amount of my expenses from Hillsborough to Philadelphia and from thence to Richmond, incurr'd by your direction, there is a considerable balance due me from the public, but not the least prospect of receiving payment. The money that enabled [undecipherable] and I to travel to Philadelphia was Col. [undecipherable: probable reading Patterson] as I presume you recollect my mentioning on receiving your commands which I have been oblig'd to repay his Executors. I flatter myself that as this money was applied at your request in the manner I have stated [strikethrough: that] I shall not be subjected to the inconvenience of remaining longer without it, but that your influence with the [undecipherable] obtain an immediate adjustment, or that you will point out a speedy mode of payment to y^r most obed^t Serv^t Ra Magill Dear Gates — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the acct can be settled, I beg the favor of you to pay the money to or leave the bearer of this [undecipherable]