Philadelphia 8^th March 1797 Sir I have received your Note — your former Note would have been attended to with my usual promptness, but for the expectation that M^r Wilkins would have been in Town as, a before the termination of his Office, which by Lawtook place on the 4^th instant — then, I contemplated a full adjustment of all accounts that respected his Administration, and the sum in question among the rest — If he does not arrive very shortly the requisition made relative to the thousand Dollars, tho' not clearly understood shall be effected — I am Sir, Your Humble Servant William Simmons Esq^r Accountant Samuel Hodgdon [address leaf: William Simmons Esquire Accountant] [postal notation: [undecipherable: probable reading: Chur Holde?] No. 28 [undecipherable]] [seal]