[undecipherable] [Docket: Joseph Ashbridge / 14 April 1799 / Aud[itor]] [Stamp: Received from State Dep't. Nov. 24, 1894. R.P.O. 401810.] [Address panel: Chester Ap^ril 14, [17]99 [undecipherable] / Major [?] Samuel Hodgdon] Chester 14^th April 1799 Sir/ I am informed that you & M^r J Downing have agreed to the mode of Setling the wharfage Acc^t & that he does relinquish his Share of the wharfage agreeable to his former promise. That being the case there will be something very considerable remaining to me & therefore should be most [undecipherable] to you to have the Acc^t made out since the 23^d June 1795 and then to send them to my friend Israel [undecipherable] who will forward the same to [undecipherable] Joseph Ashbridge N.B. I should be much obliged to you for a line or two informing when I may call for a Settle[ment]