[Cover/address panel — document is heavily damaged with large areas of ink loss and foxing. Majority of text is illegible. Partial text visible at lower right appears to read: "[undecipherable] Dealt. S. / et D[u]nn" or similar. Archival stamps present.] Bal[timo]re february 2^d 17[9?][undecipherable] [undecipherable] Sir I have seen your Letter that you sent here. D[oc]t [undecipherable] the Officer of the Revenue respecting My Transactions at [Pit?]. Wherein he [undecipherable] for [undecipherable], for my Expenses but to [undecipherable] if your [undecipherable] [undecipherable]. When I Left [Pit?] to go to Philadelphia [undecipherable] did [undecipherable] [undecipherable] To Return Again [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that [undecipherable] fore, [undecipherable] [undecipherable] h[ould] Agree — from [undecipherable] to Philadelphia [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Whom [you] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Proceded to [Pit?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] immediately, [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for the [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] went to work at the [undecipherable] Making of [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that were [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable] untill the Work was [S]fficient to Launch. he [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Continue my wages [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] he [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] ten dollar[s] I [undecipherable] [undecipherable] he would not Agree with [undecipherable] James [undecipherable] I [undecipherable] Philadelphia or to Baltimore I [undecipherable] here for a Settlement which he Refused [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Which I could not [undecipherable] [undecipherable] it was not leaving a farthing —— One [undecipherable] this I [undecipherable] that [undecipherable: probable reading Cragg] has Wroten to you that I was not at work at [undecipherable] I Convince you the fact [undecipherable] was at [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and the Next [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Galley I have Mentioned [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Philadelphia I was Employ[ed] by the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Whom I thought [undecipherable] A Contract [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I found it to the Contrary and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable: probable reading Cragg] Would [undecipherable] More [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] than traveling [undecipherable] Hundred M[ile]s at My Expense for that [undecipherable] reason because [undecipherable] as [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the Contract that was [undecipherable] Not [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to be [undecipherable] for my [undecipherable] Money to [undecipherable] Whom [undecipherable] here but not [undecipherable] that but [undecipherable] [undecipherable] any Money from the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I am at Work at [undecipherable] [undecipherable] at My Business here and [undecipherable] Willing to [answer?] any Demands on [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [Rogers?] [Marginal note at bottom of page:] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] this letter that [undecipherable] [undecipherable] from when it some [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [sign?] it