Knoxville September 1^st 1798, Sir I received your letter of the 1^st August enclosing a Note on Colonel Thomas Butler, payable after ten days sight to your self under the signature of James Mason and Indorsed by John Wilkins to David Henley, The Note Sir, I have presented to Colonel Butler who assures me that some misunderstanding is a Consequence of this delay of payment, that what he received was only four hundred dolls Dollars and about 70/100 and for having the papers with him at this place he feared had [undecipherable: experienced] the Precise Sum. — that I call upon him for the Amount of the Bill or desire his protest, and send you the papers in return, or that I settle the to the amount he received. — Your answer to the above Queries will determine my Conduct, and to do this to your Satisfaction will give me pleasure to Your Humble Sirt David Henley General John Wilkins,