[Docket, rotated on exterior: Colonel [undecipherable] Wilkins / [undecipherable] / [undecipherable]] [Stamp: Received from State Dep. Nov. 24. [18]94. R.P.O.401810.] [1a] Fort Washington 2^d august 1798 [Stamp: Received from State Dep't. Nov. 24. 1894. R.P.O.401310.] Previous to my arrival at this place, Cap^tn William H Harrison, the D. Mast^r here, had drawn on you bills to the amount of five thousand dollars, to furnish his Department with money on General Wilkinson's descending the river - They are numbered as follows. N^o 1. two thousand Dollars 2 } 3 } fifteen hundred Dollars each 4 ) 5 } five hundred dollars each 6 } 7 ) He cannot ascertain the date, & a blank was left in the bills to fill up the names of the persons with whom they might be negotiated. These bills you will please to pay as they are presented, & charge him to my account - am Sir, with great regard your Col. Hodgdon ob^t S^t A. Wilkins [undecipherable]