[Page 1 of the microfilm reel contains an archival notice: "Illegible Text — Some or all of the pages of this file are wholly or in part illegible. We have not been able either to locate a better copy of the document, or to enhance its legibility electronically."] Pittsburgh 5^th Nov^r 1797 I am under the necessity of troubling you about [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in which I am concerned — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to be much obliged to you [undecipherable] to the following circumstances, viz: The two Certificates N^os 85 & 87 are in the names of my self & Dudley Woodbridge, & on Suite there remains due the United States 1619 Dollars [undecipherable] [Cents] which is to be paid on or before the [undecipherable] day of [Dec^r] next — Dudley Woodbridge for his part has [paid] [undecipherable] allowed [undecipherable] for $13 [undecipherable] 56 Cents of these [undecipherable] their remains to be paid for me, 805 Dollars 49 [undecipherable] [Cents], I desire you will please to pay, [undecipherable] for [both] the [undecipherable] of my Payments, the necessary receipts on the [account] of the Certificate & you will Charge me with the money paid on my account — The two Certificates N^os 46 [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] owned by M^r Addison [undecipherable] [undecipherable] these two Certificates [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] have been deposited by the [undecipherable] please to pay this [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the receipts as before directed, which you will Charge to my [account] I hope you will excuse the extraordinary trouble I occasion to you in this business, to me to beg your early attention to it, as a failure in the Payment at the proper time, is a forfeiture of the land — The money on the two last Certificates mentioned is payable on or before the 5^th d[ay] of Dec^r next. — I have [undecipherable] [undecipherable] you of this date my [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for 500 dollars — [I] enclose to you a general return of D[eputy] Mast[er] Stores to the latest Period to which I have received returns from the different Posts — I am, Sir, your very Hum^ble d[servant] H.^o Wilkins J^r D Mast Gen[eral] [Address panel:] Col^o Samuel Hodgdon Philadelphia [Endorsement, rotated:] [undecipherable] Wilkins / to the [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] — / [undecipherable] January / [undecipherable] [Stamp:] Received / State Dep't / Feb^y 24 1804 / R.P.O. 20:1810