Pittsburgh 3^d Dec 1797 Sir I presented your bill on [undecipherable] — [Hezekiah] Temple for payment, which was refused, [undecipherable] he [undecipherable] not [undecipherable] his hands [undecipherable] to Col° Butler — I of course return y° Bill The most probable mode I am [undecipherable] write that you can settle this be come with Col° Butler, with [him?] to draw on him [at] Knox ville in fav of the agent of the War Department. ___ Am, Sir, your most ob^t & very H^ble J. Wilkinson Col° Samuel Hodgdon [Enclosure:] Philadelphia 24 November 1797 Dollars 319. 25 Cents nf Three days after sight be pleased to Pay Colonel John Wilkins or Order Three hundred and Nineteen dollars and [undecipherable] twenty five Cents, being so much advanced by me on account of Colonel Thomas [undecipherable], as per advice of Samuel Hodgdon M^r [Hezekiah] Temple Pittsburgh [Docket, upper right of cover sheet: Genl. [John] Wilkins[on] / Rec^d 15 December 1797 / Acknowledg[es] my draft on [Hezekiah] Temple / [undecipherable]] [Address, cover sheet: Col° Samuel [Hodgdon] / [ho]dg[don] / Philadelphia] [Document number stamped: 172]