Knoxville October 2 1799

Sir I have drawn on you this day in favor of Michael Deadvich on order payable after ten days sight for three hundred dollars which sum it is to appropriate to the paying the Army in Tennessee under Colonel Butler and having [undecipherable] this Bill to the Credit of the Treasurer request you honoring the same I am Respectfully Your Humble Servant David Henley Agent of War

The Honorable James McHenry