[Address panel: [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] [undecipherable] M[undecipherable] / [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] / Philadelphia or / [undecipherable] from [undecipherable]] [Docket: Major [undecipherable] Langham / 6^th Octob 1798 / [undecipherable] 19 —] Shepherds Town Oct. 6^th 1798 [156] Sir, Inclosed is the Administration of [undecipherable] Kusper with a power of Attorney for you to receive the pay due from the United States to her son who died in the Service — I mentioned M^r Kusper to you when I had the pleasure of seeing you last in Philadelphia when you was good enough to promise your attention to his business. Please receive the pay due [undecipherable] inclose it in a Note to M^r [undecipherable] Morrow of this Town, Post Master for M^r Kusper, or authorise M^r Kusper by letter to M^r Morrow to draw on you for the amount y[undecipherable] [undecipherable] of attention with do [undecipherable] [undecipherable] is the worthy old Gentleman [undecipherable] business will lay me under additional oblig[undecipherable] to you — Please cause me to the Sec[undecipherable] of War for directing this letter to him, I do it to [undecipherable] M^r [undecipherable] [undecipherable] under the [undecipherable] of paying postage, when [undecipherable] person of [undecipherable] is not a [undecipherable] from the public, which I consider would be a Tax not intended by the U.S. I am with usual respect Your Ob^t Serv^t [undecipherable] Langham Major Hodg[undecipherable: don]