[Joseph [undecipherable] Mss. No. 72 [undecipherable] Accou[nts]] [ε 19] Philadelphia 20 August 1794 Sir! Your instruction and the[ir] [undecipherable] payment thereon eighteen pay rolls, with an ab[stract] of the amount of each, making the whole hem two thousand eighty three dollars [undecipherable: Nineteen] Cents, said to be due the Militia of the Southwestern Territory. they were for Services before my appointment; and they w[ere] not put into my hands at so late a period from my coming off from that Country, that I had not times to determine and get the information that may be fore to pays them. But I will avail myself of all the[ir] [undecipherable] them & report to your [undecipherable: Office] at an [undecipherable: early] time as is possible. Three of those Bundles have [undecipherable] attended to me [undecipherable] them. [The] [undecipherable] Captains Henry & Bedford— [undecipherable: Sergeant] Gibbons, [undecipherable: Looney] [undecipherable: Lowry] [shall] as before promised be enquired into I am respectfully, for Your Hum Serv^t David Henley Joseph [undecipherable: Fenell] [undecipherable: Carrine] Accountant of the War department