Exchange for 400$ Sir At ten days sight of this my first bill of exchange, second of like tenor and date unpaid, pay unto Jonathan Taylor or order four hundred dollars, it being a negotiable bill to supply him with money for the recruiting service and [strikethrough: for] which sum I am accountable as per advice of the same. I am Sir Knoxville, State of Tennessee Your Hum^ble. Servant th 6 August 1798 The honorables David Henley James M^c Henry Ag^t War Secretary of War Philadelphia [2585] [Jon Taylor Lieu^t 1 Regiment] Pay the Contents to Messer Charles & John Pleasants — Pay to George Dobson or order Chas & [undecipherable] Pleasants Pay to D^r John Howell or order George Dobson [Received October 9. 1798 at warrant N^o 3291. for four hundred Dollars in full of the within bill of Exchange D^rs 400] John Howell