[Address: For Samuel Hodgdon Philadelphia] [35.5] [by the [undecipherable]] [undecipherable: Matthew Slough?] received as 26 [undecipherable] 1794 [35.5] [Received from State Dep't Nov. 21 R.P.O.401810] Sir Lancaster 26^th Novemb: 1794 Agreeable to your request inclosed find [undecipherable] to you my account of Expenditures for Expresses &c° accompanied by the Accompany Vouchers which I trust will now be Satisfactory, a balance of one hundred & thirty sixty pounds nine Shillings & two pence remains due me on this account for which I have taken the liberty to draw on you in favour of Mr. fo[undecipherable] & Mr. [undecipherable: Helmuth?] and hope it will be paid at [undecipherable: sight?] as I have appropriated the money under the direction of Mr. [undecipherable: Helmuth?] who is so obliging as to [undecipherable: transact?] any little [undecipherable] for me during the absence of my [undecipherable] who is out on the Expedition against the Insurgents in the Western Country; I have only charged the common [undecipherable: commission?] of 5[p]Ct on my Disbursements on this account, as [undecipherable] being [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable: trouble?] which I had being almost every night [undecipherable] out of my [undecipherable] and I therefore hope a more Liberal allowance will be made me on [undecipherable: this occasion?] because I think three times the sum is quite little [undecipherable: enough?] for the [undecipherable: trouble?] I had. I mentioned to you [undecipherable] days since that [undecipherable] horses remain in my Stables to which I have not had the pleasure of an answer and therefore repeat it, both in the hope of being [undecipherable] [undecipherable] your money, I [undecipherable: trust?] that the balance due me on this account will Eventually paid as it is [undecipherable] of a [undecipherable] which is to [undecipherable: taking?] a Note of mine in [undecipherable: Bank?]; the [undecipherable: receipts?] transmitted with the account are taken in a book which I [undecipherable] out, the book containing no others as yet and is not now full which is the reason of one of them being [undecipherable] cut in two which I think [undecipherable: necessary?] to mention to you and remain Sir Your Very Hum^ble Servant Matthew Slough Col. Samuel Hodgdon