Now I have all the pages. Let me compile the full transcription. [Docket, cover panel: Received / State Dep't. / Nov. 24, 1891 / R.P.O. 401310. (36)] [Docket notation: [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] / 1799 —] Supervisor's Office Baltimore, February 11^th 1799 Sir On the receipt of your Letter of the 1^st instant I went to Fells Point, and after some Search; found the person therein mentioned, not at Price's, but at another Ship Yard. I called him aside, and informed him of your claim. I [undecipherable] [undecipherable] what he said on [undecipherable] — the letter which he afterwards determined to write [undecipherable] which is herewith inclosed. I demanded some Security for [the] payment of the moneys if, after time had been allowed for [the] necessary explanations, he should not be able to convince you that it was not justly due. He did not immediately consent to give such Security, but promised to come up to my Office the next morning. He came accordingly, and after some considerations went back with a kind of obligation which I had [undecipherable] up; and which he promised to shew to a M^r Weedon, with whom he appears to have some engagements, and procure his signature to it; if, upon consultation, they should agree that such an obligation ought to be given. He came again this day to my office, accompanied by M^r Weedon, but did not seem inclined to give any security, untill an answer should be made to the letter already referred to which he had in the interim prepared. I readily agreed to forward his letter, but insisted on some kind of Security for the ultimate paym[ent] of the claim if it should be found due; and at length obtained M^r Weedon's Signature to the paper of which a Copy is enclosed. It is not so precise as the one I had first drawn, but I could not get a stricter obligation Signed, and I thought it better to take this than to Institute a suit for the same; I believe, loose and informal as it is, that it yet secures the claim, but I cannot help wishing that [there] may be [something] disclosed, on further examination, Sufficient to [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] the decency of his behaviour in the conversation I have had with him excite this sentiment, which however Shall not prevent me from taking any further measures that you may hereafter think proper to suggest. I State this occasion to acknowledge your Letters of the 7^th and 14^th of December 1798. The latter arrived long before the [former,] and judging from it's contents that the Musquets would not come in time, I applied [those] already in my hands to the purpose for which these last had been directed to be sent; a step from which no inconvenience can arise, as I mark them all in the same manner. Your letter of the 7^th was accompanied by the one from M^r Zebulon Hollingsworth of which a Copy is enclosed. The Musquets have not yet arrived and I have heard no more about them — Perhaps you can find the means of giving them a start from the place where they lie. I am Sir Your Most obedient Servant John Kilty Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r --- [Enclosure — back cover docket: Received / State Dep[t.] / Nov. 24, [1891] / R.P.O. [401810]. Docket notation: [undecipherable].] Bal[timore] [undecipherable] [179?] [(35)] [The body of this enclosure is severely water-damaged and largely illegible throughout. What can be discerned follows:] I have seen [your?] Letter that [you?] sent here [to?] [undecipherable] — [to?] the Officer[s?] of the Revenue respecting My [undecipherable] at [Fells?] [Point?]. [When?] he [undecipherable] [undecipherable], for my [Expenses?] [undecipherable] [your?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]. [When?] [I?] left [Fells?] [Point?] to go to Philadelphia [I?] did [undecipherable] To Return Again [undecipherable] give the [same?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [had?] not [Agree?] — [from?] [proceed?] to Philadelphia [undecipherable] at [all?] — [When?] [you?] [undecipherable] Proceed to [Fells?] [Point?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [immediately?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for the [Master?] and Baltimore [went?] to work at the [undecipherable] Making of [the?] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [found?] [some?] that were [undecipherable] [of?] [the?] [undecipherable] now [until?] the [Work?] was Sufficient to Launch. he [undecipherable] Continue [my?] wages [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] and [See?] [undecipherable] [ten?] [Dollar?]s [undecipherable] he would not Agree with [undecipherable] [I?] [would?] not [go?] to Philadelphia or to Baltimore [I?] the [undecipherable] here for a Settlement which he Refused [undecipherable] [month?] which I [could?] not [undecipherable] that it was not [meaning?] a farthing — [Continuation, also severely damaged:] [One?] [Clarke?] [undecipherable] understood that M^r [undecipherable] [Carey?] has Written to you that I was not at work at [Philadelphia?] — [undecipherable] you the fact [was?] I was at [Philadelphia?] and the Next [undecipherable] [the?] [Galley?] I have Mentioned [undecipherable] In Philadelphia I was Employed — by the [United?] States [When?] I thought [When?] a Contract [was?] [undecipherable] was made [till?] I found it to the Contrary and I [Mention?] this [to?] [undecipherable] [Carey?] [Would?] not [undecipherable] [the?] [Balance?] due — [take?] travelling [undecipherable] [one?] Hundred Miles at My Expense; for [that?] Reason [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the Contract that was — [undecipherable] not only that and not to be [Paid?] [There?] for my [undecipherable] Money to Fells Point [When?] he did not [undecipherable] but not only that but not [undecipherable] [Any?] Money from the [last?] [undecipherable] — I [am?] at Work at Fells Point at My [Expense?] — here and [Are?] Willing to Answer any Demands on [undecipherable] from — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] this letter that [undecipherable] you when it [some?] [has?] [undecipherable] to [sign?] it --- [Copy] Elkton January 17^th 1799 Sir A few days a go I received a line from Samuel Hodgdon Esquire, informing me that he had Sent a Box containing two Musquets, by a Waggon from Philadelphia requesting me to forward the box to you by the Land Stage after much inquiry and search I yesterday found the Box up in Chester County about ten Miles from this place. The Waggon having met with a load of goods for that place left the box there soon as I can get it [undecipherable] Shall Send it to you by the Land Stage. This accompanies the letter I found with the Box of Musquets. Your humble Servant (Signed [Zebulon?] [undecipherable] Hollingsworth John Kilty Esquire Supervisor of the Revenue