Middletown Sept^r 8^th 1794 Sir I have recieved your letter of the 19^th Ultimo to gether with the Pay Roll enclosed there with. I have recieved the monies remited to John Chester Esquire and made the payments accordingly. I now enclose the receit which I have taken and hold duplicates of the same. The monies Transmitted by John Chester Esquire [are] one hundred thirty five dollars the receit Account for one hundred [&] two dollars leaving the as—[undecipherable]lous in my hands occasioned by the desertion of Benjamin Green for which I am to due [undecipherable] With respect, I am your Ob'd Servant Russell Bissell Capt — [Joseph Howell Esquire] --- New York Sept^r [undecipherable] 1794 Sam^l Hodgdon Esq^r [Received from State Dep't. Nov. 24, 1894. R.P.O.401310.] Sir Inclosed you have a receipt for a Box of Port fiers, which we have rec^d from M^r Whittlesey Middlton and forwarded by the south Am boy Stage boat the first trip after they came to hand We are Your Ob^t Ser^ts [undecipherable] Wyckoff &c --- Rec^d New York Sept^r [undecipherable] 1794 on board the [undecipherable] Stage Boat one Box Port fiers which I promise to forward to Philadelphia to Samuel Hodgdens Or order he or they paying freight the danger of the seas [undecipherable: probable reading excepted] Jacob Hysa [mark] [Received from State Dep't. Nov. 24, 1894. R.P.O.401310.] --- [Sept. [undecipherable] Receipt for Box [undecipherable]]