[postal stamp: LANCASTER Oct 8] Sam^d Hoggdon Esquire Philadelphia [endorsement: b Peacock 8^th October / [undecipherable] / Rec^d— 1798] Pittsburgh September 7^th 1798 Five hundred dollars At ten days sight hereof be pleased to pay John Wrenshall or to his order with or without furth[er] [500 Doll^s:] advice the sum of five hundred dollars which charg[e] as usual to the Quarter Master General and Obl[ige] Sir, Your most Obedient Servan[t] To [Copy] [undecipherable] Samuel Hodgdon Esquire [undecipherable] Philadelphia Sir Above I have taken the liberty of handing you Copy of a Draft M^r Wrenshall bough[t] from M^r S. Craig, Yt. Q^r M^r G^l and forwarded to our pay man in Phil^a whose death prevented it being presen[ted] for acceptance — on my return from the westward I find the Draft at my lodgings in this place a— If you have received advice of the said Bill and will be so obliging as make a memorand[um] as accepted it will save me the trouble of sending it to town and wh[en] the [undecipherable] will call o[n] you for the am[oun]t. your Compliance will muc[h] obl[ige] Sir Y^r. Mo. Ob^t Hbl^e Ser[van]t Lancaster 8^th Oct^r 1798 R. Peacock