Benj Smith Pay Purch[undecipherable] [undecipherable] Daws or order Value [undecipherable] Account with [underline: [undecipherable]] Rumford & Abijan Dawes [3256] [Exchange for $333 1/3] Wilmington N.C. [undecipherable] June 1799 — On Sight after my first of Exchange, Second of same being & date unpaid, please pay to Benjamin Smith or order [seal] hundred and thirty three dollars and one Third value received by Contract, this day entered into agreeably to your [undecipherable: instructions?] for erecting part of Fort Johnston at the mouth of Cape Fear River. To. The hon[orable] [undecipherable] Secretary of the War Department, Philadelphia — [undecipherable signature] W. D[undecipherable]