[endorsement: [undecipherable: probable reading "Letter from [undecipherable] Albany Aug[undecipherable] [17]9[undecipherable]"]] Albany 9^th of August. 1798 — Sir — I Would have Sent this Return Before Now, but as I have Not Received No further [undecipherable: probable reading "Dress"] for Some More Horse's I think it to be high time to forward it, I have Added it as Accurate as I Can and Should any Mistake be in it, it Can be Rectified In the Next. You Are Mentioning in your last Dated July 13^th 1798, that you have Called the Attention of the Accountant to the Adjustment of My Accounts, that [undecipherable] Doubt [undecipherable] Rather Am I Astonished to hear [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] as he is, [undecipherable] Don't [undecipherable] [undecipherable] thousand Accounts in his office of Store Consequently [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable], and Can [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Soon at a [undecipherable] D. pray sir I Would Wish to Ask you a question and am Invited to free postage, if I [undecipherable] there Will be the [undecipherable] Small Sum of Seven and twenty Shillings and Nine Pence Due to me Since the last [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] I have for the [undecipherable] About the time that M^r Webb's has Brought me My Salary from Philadelphia Right or Wrong I have Charged you [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Another So will — Affair Strikes My Mind About [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable], I Would Wish to be inform'd Whether [undecipherable] [undecipherable] as having No other employments but My Salary, it [undecipherable] to Something at the end of the [undecipherable], I refer that however entirely to You. Let Me have the [undecipherable] of informing — You Sir Although Not of a Credible [undecipherable]utority, that there Are [undecipherable] [undecipherable: probable reading "Hogsheads"] of the Last Cloathing Sent for the Soldiers, Detained Still at Fort Stanwicks for the payment of the Drayage, and Carrying Places. A Soldier Lately Discharged from the Service from Fort [undecipherable], Passing through Albany, has told Me that it Was [undecipherable] Absolute [undecipherable], I do Not Wish to [undecipherable] it But it is My Duty to Acquaint [undecipherable] With it You Will [undecipherable] Such Informations [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] About that the Fellow [undecipherable] [undecipherable] even that they Was all [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Without [undecipherable]. My Respects as Usual, pray Sir, to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] together With My Sincer[e] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in all — I Remain With a High Esteem Sir, — Your Most Obedient [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Servant [signature] Samuel Godson [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]