[Rotated endorsement in upper right corner:] [undecipherable] [Cincinnata] 5 Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r Philadelphia P. Cost Columbus June 6^th 1796 Dear Sir Will you indulge us with inclosing to you a bill of Exchange on the Secretary of War for five Hundred Dollars - and we have further to beg you to take the trouble of paying the money and discharging therewith some accounts against us in your City, viz: be so obliging as to pay to William young on our account 66.62 Eighty six Dollars and Sixty two Cents. To John Cliford 149.1 one hundred forty nine Dollars and one cent. To Thomas Leavy 239.40 two hundred thirty nine Dollars & forty Cents. These Sums will discharge the accounts Those Gentlemen have against us for which you will please to take their Reciept the ballance of the bill which will be [undecipherable] Dollars & ninety one Cents, we will thank you to pay to Mr Peter [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — and have that Surrendered on our [undecipherable] is [undecipherable] one hundred — and for the service you will render us. We at present can only offer ours in return, Should you honor us with any command while we are with sentiments of respect & esteem your Ob^t Serv^t Smith & Armstrong Paid 66.62 William Young Paid Paid 149. 1 Cliford Paid Paid 239.40 Leavy Paid 24. 91 [undecipherable] 498.94 Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r