[Addressed:] Col. Samuel Hodgdon war department Philadelphia [Marginalia, upper right, partially undecipherable: [undecipherable] [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] the city] Albany Aug: 1^st 1798 Dear [undecipherable] I have the pleasure to inform you that I received yesterday from J. S. [undecipherable: probable reading Dickinson] Attorney at Law, 1032 dollars 5 cents on a Judgment recovered in [undecipherable] favor against John [undecipherable: probable reading Duncan] dec[ease]d. [undecipherable] amounts shall be paid you as soon as I arrive at Philadelphia. I have it in a view to leave this in a few days for the seat of Government. Should any unforeseen accidents prevent me, I shall advise you of the same, when the money shall be forwarded by a safe [undecipherable], or will be paid to your draft on sight [undecipherable] of [undecipherable: probable reading quantity] [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] Col[onel] [undecipherable] demand, [undecipherable] I am [undecipherable] I have been [undecipherable] and pressed the business. I should not have been so [undecipherable] as to announce its being in [undecipherable] possession. I should be happy to hear from you. [undecipherable] if you do me [undecipherable] to inform me [undecipherable] the establishment of the Dragoons will [undecipherable] be comple[undecipherable], and who on the field [undecipherable] be in his [undecipherable] invested — I have the honor to be Sir your most ob^t & very hum^ble Servant [undecipherable: probable reading Solomon Van Rensselaer] [Col. S. Hodgdon]