[Received State [undecipherable] Nov. 24 R.P. 4[undecipherable]] Pittsburg 2 September 1796 Sir, Your two letters of the 27^th ultimo [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] one of which [undecipherable] [undecipherable] attention to my compensation [undecipherable] services [undecipherable] [undecipherable] make no doubt [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I shall as you [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] paid [undecipherable] you in [undecipherable] also [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of cw. 8.3.1^ts at seven dollars per [undecipherable: probable reading "head"] [undecipherable] Cap John Pierce is[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [charge?] [undecipherable] which have [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to you in charge of Charles M'[undecipherable] & [undecipherable: probable reading "Waggoner"] whose receipt you will [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] will see the transportation paid [undecipherable] is accompanied by an Estimate [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Expenditure during the third Quarter [undecipherable] the the amount 14,133 ⁶⁴/100 Dollars but [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in my Hands arising from the amount of [undecipherable] also exceeding the [undecipherable] But [undecipherable] [undecipherable] ascertained until the accounts of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] upper Canada and transportation to Detroit [undecipherable] other accounts come forward and which [undecipherable] [undecipherable]ing for. Sam[undecipherable] S. Sam[undecipherable] C [undecipherable] Your [undecipherable] [signature] [address panel, verso: undecipherable; printed/stamped administrative label affixed to center of sheet]