Sand Hodgdon Esqr At Sight Pay to Sand Murdoch Esqr Treas.^r of the United States, the Sum of Eighty five dollars 87/100 being so much which I have advanced to Express at the instance of M.^r John Steele, and thus drawn for, agreeably to your letter of the 2^d Instant. $85. 87/100 [undecipherable] Harrington dep^t Sand Hodgdon Esq Agent for the Q. M.^r Gen.^t department. June 19. 1798 Philadelphia. June 28. 1798. Received of Samuel Hodgdon eighty five Dollars and eighty seven cents, in full of the within; being in repayment of the like sum advanced by E. Carrington to William Haywood, an Express from Richmond to Knoxville, State of Tennessee. [Two signatures, undecipherable] Paid 85. 87 [Marginalia: £3. 58 undecipherable] Please to pay to William Haywood who is charged as [strikethrough: undecipherable] with public dispatches, for David Henley Esq.^t Gen.^l Knoxville, a Sum equal to an allowance of Seven pence half penny per mile going, and the same for returning from thence to this place, giving such a part only in Advance, as may amount to his expenses, and the Remainder when he produces to you a Receipt for the delivery of the dispatches expressing the day of the delivery thereof and charge the Same to the Department of War. John Steele 10^th March 1798 Edward Carrington Esq.^t Richmond [The States (War Office) V.^s to E. Carrington 1798 May 24 To [undecipherable] Wm. Haywood Expids. In request of M.^r J.^t Steele Commissr for an Indian Treaty [undecipherable] $85. 87 Error Excepted E. Carrington]