[Endorsement on exterior of folded letter: [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] / Recvd. [undecipherable] [undecipherable] / dated [undecipherable] [undecipherable] 1797] Treasury Department Comptrollers Office. 14^th December 1797. Sir, On an adjustment made at the Treasury of the accounts of Tench Francis, as Agent for procuring supplies for the Department of War, commencing on the 25^th of September 1792, and ending on the 27^th of November 1793, it appeared, that he had purchased and paid for various parcels of goods, and delivered them to the following individuals. — Viz: [Ent.] 1. To Henry Fraley (Plank) amounting to Dols 469. 06 [Ent.] 2. Widow G. Miles (Powder) d ......... 11.000. " [Ent.] 3. Edmund Hand (Rifles) d ......... 9.000. " [En.] 4. Israel Chapin, Agent to the six nations (Goods) d ......... 2.251. 63. [En.] 5. John McKinstry d. d. d ......... 4.029. 91. [En.] 6. Silas Dinsmore, Agent to the Cheroke Indians d. d ......... 5.150. 55. 7. James Seagrove, Agent to the Creek Indians d. d ......... 9.021. 58. [Ent.] 8. Richard Dale. (Composition balls) d ......... 190. 80 Amounting in the whole to ..... Dollars 43.601. 59. The said Agent having received a full credit at the Treasury, for the sums above mentioned, disbursed for articles, which were thus delivered by him without your your intervention, I now transmit herewith, copies of the several vouchers and documents numbered from 1 to 8 inclusive, which ascertain the purchase by the Agent, and the delivery of them to the several persons whose names are above specified; on which you will be pleased to cause such entries to be made, as [strikethrough: the] several cases may require, in order to charge and hold the parties respectively accountable on the books of your Office, for the articles so delivered to each of them. I am Sir, very respectfully. Your Obed: Servant: [undecipherable: probable reading "Steele"] Comptr. Samuel Hodgdon Esq:—