[Endorsement, upper right:] [undecipherable] Jany 12/95 to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [Stamp, center upper:] Received [undecipherable] [undecipherable] 32 Samuel [undecipherable]ton Esq^re Philadelphia [d.] Dear Sir — Philad. 12 January 1795. The indisposition of my health [undecipherable: probable reading "hitherto"], has deprived me of Sending my Accounts to you, agreeable to my Orders from the War Department — which were to have been forwarded on the 1. Monday in this month — Giving you this information I hope will be a Sufficient Apology for my Silence — finding myself better this morning and I think on the Recovery — I shall immediately draw them off without delay— I have the honor to be Sir, with real [undecipherable] Your M^ost Ob^t & [undecipherable] Serv^t— [undecipherable] Esq— [Signature: Samuel [undecipherable]] [Stamp:] Received from State Dep^t. Nov 2[undecipherable], [undecipherable] R.P.O. 4013.C