Flatbush. Long Island Oct 3. 1798 D^r Sr I was much obliged for you. favour Some time past. & for the trouble you took in forwarding my letter to Col. Main to transmit & I did [undecipherable: expect]. before this to have heard from him. I am in hopes. that he [undecipherable: was] has wrote you on the Subject or has given Orders to his Pay Master to Settle my Note. Will you be so Obliging as to write me by that flat me know. if you have heard any thing from him. on the Subject. & where the Pay master the Regiment at present is. Perhaps I may [undecipherable] him Negotiate the Note — I am with great Respect Y^r Mo Ob^t H^ble S^t [undecipherable: C. Lands] [Michfman by War office Aug^t [undecipherable]] [To John [undecipherable] Rec^d. [undecipherable] ans. [undecipherable] 1793.]