[Page 1 is a project placeholder reading: "Illegible Text — Some or all of the pages of this file are wholly or in part illegible. We have not been able either to locate a better copy of the document, or to enhance its legibility electronically"] M^r Branham Sir [undecipherable] to pay to John [undecipherable] esq^r or order at [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] out of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for me from the Treasury, for [undecipherable]. [signature] M^r Branham Sep^r 12 1793 at the Secretary of State's Office. I promise to pay to John Ross esquire or order at sixty Days from the date hereof one hundred dollars for value received. [signature] Sep^r 1793.