[Benj. Smith's] Pay [undecipherable] & Elijah Dawen or a due Bearer in Amount with [undecipherable: signature] Rumford & Elijah Dawen [3256] Exchange for $500. N^o 4 Wilmington N.C. 1^st June 1799 — On sight of this my first of Exchange/ Second of same tenor & date unpaid, Please pay to Benjamin Smith or order Five hundred dollars value received by Contract this day entered into specially to give instructions for erecting part of Fort Johnston at the mouth of Cape Fear River — To G. L. M. Ree, [undecipherable] The Honble. James McHenry Esq. [undecipherable] Secretary of the War Department Philadelphia [seal]