New London Virginia May 7^th 1795 Sir You will herewith please to receive my returns of work executed with the Day roles and Estimate of last Month. If M^rs Wiley Pattie should be in Philadelphia when the Packet comes to hand I request you will please pay to her the Sum of Eleven [undecipherable] and two dollars 26½ being the amount of the Estimate as I think I can convince her that she will bring it safe to hand — William [undecipherable] requests that no more of his wages may be paid in [Phila^a?] but that you would forward the whole of it to this place in future including his April pay. John Patrick has done nothing since [undecipherable] to you last [undecipherable] to procure orders [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] who were indebted to him to the Amount of about two hundred dollars — the [undecipherable] of John [undecipherable] is [undecipherable] to us we can get no [undecipherable] like him in this Country. If [Pattie?] [undecipherable] send him back such is his [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] in his [undecipherable] that his too high wages may hardly be given to him — [I have?] the honor to be with great respect In your most Obedient Servant [signature] [Address: Lemuel Hodgdon Esquire] [Postal notations: Rec. [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] Philadelphia / Ans. [undecipherable] 1795 / A.G. 19^th [undecipherable]]