[circular postmark: LANCASTER Ct: 8] Sam.^d Hogdon Esquire Philadelphia [left margin, rotated: B. Varnick 8^th October / [undecipherable] 1793] Pittsburgh September 7^th 1793 Five hundred dollars At ten days sight hereaf be pleased to pay John Wrenshall or to his order with or without further advice the sum of five hundred dollars which charge at usual to the Quarter Master General and Oblige Your Most Obedient Servant To [undecipherable] [copy] [undecipherable] Samuel Hogdon Esquire [undecipherable] Philadelphia Sir [undecipherable: probable reading "Also"] I have taken the liberty of handing you Copy of a Draft M'r Wrenshall bough from M'r Craig, the 7^th [undecipherable] ance forwards to our paymaster in the[re] where [undecipherable] preventing it being presented for acceptance — on my return from the Westward I find the draft at my lodgings in this place — If you have received advice of the said Bill and will be so obliging as make a memorandum as accepted it will save me the trouble of sending it to town and [undecipherable] will call on you for the end. Your Compliance will much [undecipherable] Sir Y.^r Mo: Ob.^t Hbl: Ser:^t Lancaster 8^th Oct.^r 1793 [undecipherable signature]