Boston January 12^th 1795 Sir When you were in Boston in the Year [17]91 or 5, you [were] obliging as to accept a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Army Account, [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] you [undecipherable] Subject to [undecipherable] you take any step in that business that was tend to throw any light upon it, I request that you will confer with General Knox to whom I have written by this conveyance, requesting his aid in obtaining [undecipherable] by the United States. I wish [undecipherable] means to obtain a [undecipherable] be encouragement to General Knox to oblige this [undecipherable] and thank you to point out [the] mode by which I may bring it to an [undecipherable] General [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] charge of the [undecipherable] and greatly oblige [undecipherable] your most [undecipherable] William [undecipherable] Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r [Address leaf: Samuel Hodgdon Esq / Philadelphia] [Docket, upper right of address leaf: [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] / 29 [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] Boston / [January?] 1795] [Stamp: Received / State Dept / [undecipherable]]