[Letter from Colonel Yeates dated 8 Aug^t 1785 / Received 10^th] Turners Creek 8^th August 1785 D^r Sir I enclose the bill of lading of the Stores you directed shiped to Carolina in your letter to me of 19^th [undecipherable] part, your letter of 23^d of same month directed to Y^t [undecipherable] only [undecipherable] last port, the expence previous to these Stores being shiped I here State to you as near as possible, there bills only rest unpaid for want of opportunity to do it, this I expect to meet in many days and will then do it and send you forward the proper vouchers, being on a different side of the bay I only heard from M^r P[undecipherable] a few days ago or should have Advised you sooner with much esteem I am Sir Sam^l Hodgdon Esq^r Y^t very h^ble Serv^t Ben^l Yeates