Pittsburgh 9^th 1796 Sir A [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] has brought me for a time to this place where I this morning received your letter, it your [undecipherable] I [undecipherable] my opinion plain to find you and my [undecipherable] no intention of fraud was intended the generality [undecipherable] to convince that for a [undecipherable] an Idea should exist in a place I had supposed myself sufficiently known to have [undecipherable] such a thought — I did not consider the order I had given M^rs Balfour as a relinquishment of all pay, but considered it as an order by which she might Draw all, if the pleased, but if she should not, the rest might be sent on to me, but if you considered it as a relinquishment of hers, it is no object to me. I had as liev have the whole had in Phia at the time I was obliged to receive the two months pay, it was against my wish, as I did not want the money; I had not inquired if I did not know whether or not M^rs Balfour had received a farthing. I remain Sir your most Ob^t [undecipherable] J Balfour [endorsement on verso, partially illegible: 1796]