[Docket, upper right: Haskell [undecipherable] / Sept 4^th [undecipherable] Legion 1795 / Received [undecipherable] October 1795 / [undecipherable] answered for him / Unanswered] [Address:] W. S [undecipherable] William Simmons Esquire [undecipherable] of the Department Accountant of the Department Philadelphia Carlisle 19^th October 1795. Sir Enclosed is a Reciept of Ensign Martin for threehundred and fifty dollars, The Sum to be left with him, I wish this, and the others, to be forwarded, may [undecipherable: probable reading "prove Just"] and be passed to exonerate me – I have found the roads very bad, consequently obliged to moove slowly, and shall be detained in this vicinity a day or two – what [strikethrough: this] will happen on the mountains is uncertai[n] It has invariably been my practice to lay the money under my head very night, and the pistols by my side when going to Sleep. – hop no accident will happen in that respect. In hast your most respectfully. J Haskell M[undecipherable] 4^t 1 Legion William Simmons Esq^re [undecipherable]