[Docket notation, upper right corner of cover:] [undecipherable: Winthrop Sargent?] [undecipherable] Apl 26 18[undecipherable] [Address panel, center of cover:] Gov Samuel [undecipherable] d[undecipherable] [undecipherable] Mississippi Territory — August 20^th 1798 — Accept my good Friend from this Extreame of your Government [strikethrough: undecipherable] my most ardent wishes for the health and happyness of [undecipherable] and your worthy wife — I pray God you may know not disease — I think my last Letter as it came to our honest Government may have come to your hands — buy for me Eleven [undecipherable] soldiers [undecipherable] Warrants equal to 1100 Acres there in any Event I may [undecipherable] his [undecipherable] [undecipherable] demands upon me — I wrote you for two Quarter Casks of good [undecipherable] I hope you have sent them — if not I think [undecipherable] would be adviseable to ship them by Orleans and add two more Quarter Casks a [undecipherable] commend[undecipherable] [undecipherable] or which I have care which — a [undecipherable: Burgundy?] [undecipherable] Soy [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] together, some Olives also with a little excellent Brandy and any other good things you please to be insured and come to this [undecipherable] — they and I between also a [undecipherable] here [undecipherable] Porter — the whole to be insured — I think you had best consult [undecipherable] about the Porter — these things are necessaries to me before [undecipherable] without them I must absolutely suffer — pray do not it therefore to effect them immediate at[undecipherable] — for the enclosed [undecipherable] to my Sister I request your Attention and there [undecipherable] may go on as soon as possible by [undecipherable] here if no [undecipherable] should be coming round from Philadelphia you will certainly find one at New York — [undecipherable] once my friend I [undecipherable] you — let me by this [undecipherable] your friend the [undecipherable] to send me papers — is he [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — I have [undecipherable] also [undecipherable] Mississippi to [undecipherable] early next [Summer?] the Atlantic States if this country should be in peace. and I should have organized [undecipherable] the Government — Second my Regards with your sincerest Friendly [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] one I then [undecipherable] — my health requires it for indeed I have been under [undecipherable] thin [undecipherable] and I have also as you know private [undecipherable] to cause one [undecipherable] you — I have not however [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to quit the country without leave — a [undecipherable] on the [undecipherable] one always [undecipherable] mind — Winthrop Sargent