Saml Hodgdon Esq At Sight Pay to Saml Meredith Esq Treas. of the [United] States, the Sum of Eighty five dollars 87/100 being so much which I have advanced to Express at the instance of M: John Steele, and thus drawn for, agreeably to your letter of the 2. Instant. $85. 87/100 Sam. di [undecipherable] E Carrington dep[undecipherable] Saml Hodgdon Esq Agent for the Qu. Mr. Gen. dep^t. June 19. 1798 Philadelphia June 23. 1798. Received of Samuel Hodgdon Eighty five Dollars and Eighty seven cents, in full of the within; being in repayment of the like sum advanced by E. Carrington to William Haywood, an Express from Richmond to Knoxville State of Tennessee. [signature: undecipherable] [signature: undecipherable] Paid 85.87 [marginalia: undecipherable] Please to pay to William Haywood who is charged as [strikethrough: undecipherable] with public dispatches, for David Henley esquire at Knoxville, a Sum equal to an Allowance of Seven pence half penny per mile going, and the Same for returning from thence to this place, giving Such a part only in Advance, as may amount to his goings; and the Remainder when he produces to you a Receipt for the delivery of the dispatches expressing the day of the delivery thereof and charge the Same to the Department of War. John Steele 10^th March 1798 Edward Carrington Esq^r. Richmond [docket: The States (War Office) P. to E. Carrington 1798 May 24 To [undecipherable] Wm Haywood Express, at request of M. J. Steele Commissioner for an Indian Treaty Gal. Wm [undecipherable] $85.87 [undecipherable: probable reading "Errors Excepted"] E Carrington]