Washington December N^o 5[undecipherable] 1794 [undecipherable] your order of the 17^th September to receive or have [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable] the 14^th [undecipherable] to the sum of [undecipherable] Dollars, and with [undecipherable] [undecipherable] circumstance attending the affair. The [undecipherable] [undecipherable] by [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] our my knowledge by [undecipherable] in this case Major Barrien the Inspector of the [undecipherable] of Savannah, [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in some form [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to be [undecipherable] that if any communication from the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] should contain [undecipherable] forms however [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] can [undecipherable] considerably under [undecipherable] from him he may yet have the earliest [undecipherable] from but [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] was [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the Major [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] forwarding it by him to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] man, but he was not willing to take the [undecipherable] of it upon himself, after which return to [undecipherable] being a letter was forwarded from M^r Freeman notifying one of the money being [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] Savannah, which letter I Received some time in July [undecipherable] as my own [undecipherable] [undecipherable] me, it being the first knowledge I [undecipherable] the matter, and as I could not with [undecipherable] properly Draw in favor of M^r Freeman because I had not Received your letter of [undecipherable] with regard to the appropriations, nor [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the letters were made [undecipherable] to going [undecipherable] myself they would have required my [undecipherable] [undecipherable] before the could [undecipherable] been transferred, I therefore [undecipherable] the next [undecipherable] wrote to Major Barrien to forward the money Immediately, and waited the Return of the post, but not Receiving any answer, I [undecipherable] it necessary to go to Savannah for the money, which was of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] M^r Freeman as soon as convenient [undecipherable] [undecipherable] would warrant while [undecipherable] I make no doubt it gave him [undecipherable] [undecipherable] before this time — The bills upon the Bank of Charleston I have paid to M^r Freeman, and also forwarded you receipt for the same, which [undecipherable] did not come to my [undecipherable] hand [undecipherable] nor [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] M^r [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [Address cover, page 2: postal notations and address largely undecipherable]