honored by a M^r Hyder - the person was a stranger to me but [undecipherable] [undecipherable] able - in that letter I never bore a wish that one writes [undecipherable] from - M^r Pierce [undecipherable] me [undecipherable] which was the reason of your acting in Major Eustis's business &c - If M^r Lord [undecipherable] or [undecipherable] or [undecipherable] smaller or as those [undecipherable] he promised which you [undecipherable] filled with Franklin [undecipherable] here - I wish you not to want for any [undecipherable] but to grant him what ever of your right — — if you have charged the several accounts of monies paid to General Greene to the Office of the N^o. [undecipherable] Line I have not the least doubt but the returns now made are acquainted thereto you need not to be least uneasy — [undecipherable signature] [undecipherable signature] M^r Earl Dixen Dear Sir Thursday New York 9^th June 1797 I received your two letters dated the 7 Inst. by M^r Hitching - I had forgot to mention the Receipt of M^r Greenfields Letter &c as also of one from Colonel L. Howard [undecipherable] Forts Hill in answer to some of the 25^th [undecipherable] [undecipherable] by Lieut [undecipherable] respecting his accounts - this Greenfields [undecipherable] [undecipherable] getting nothing could be done with them untill