[undecipherable] Canandaigua [undecipherable] Sir Inclosed is the receipt for [undecipherable] [d]elivered to my charge for the [undecipherable] Nations of Ind[.]. They rec^d. it with considerable satisfaction only the objection of being at their own expence of trans= =porting it; not that 250 Dollars was too much but that the United States ought to pay it as M^r. Morris at the time of mak[ing] the treaty [undecipherable] them the money would come free to them, that is, 6000 D^rs. annually. I explain[ed] your speech to them and endeavour[ed] to convince them the United States were under no particular obligation to them to be at the trouble & expence of sending them money, that when they made the annual payment at Phil^a it was as much as they ought to expect, and that M^r. Morris had told them nothing more than, when they found [undecipherable] as I had left back more of them than was expended in the Trea[undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] which they [undecipherable] had just rec[eived]. We have nothing for news in this quarter worth notice. I am, Sir respectfully [undecipherable] [undecipherable: J. Chapman?] [undecipherable] [Copy of a letter to [undecipherable] Esq [undecipherable] May 26 1799]