[Docketing: Edinton 20^th Decemr 1799 / Samuel Tredwelle / No 2 [undecipherable] January 1800 / [undecipherable] 2 / See letter & [undecipherable] from / the 9. January 1800] Edinton 20^th Decemr 1799. The amount alluded to in your letter of the 13^th Ulto last with my Cer=tificate at foot in conformity with your request I now have the pleasure to enclose — The Trucks being to be furnished by the United States, as men=tioned by the Secy ofwar in his letter of the 30^th October 1795 will occasion a deduction off the price of the Car=riages, from my first agreement with M^r Blount, and as the Value of them are not known to us the account is left open for the reception of that Credit and then to be balanced by yourself Your will be so good when the balance is ascertained as to inform me the amount that M^r Blount may draw for [strikethrough: the] which he supposes he wiles be permitted to do agreeably to the Secy of wars letter to me of the 30 Octo 1795. I am very respectfully Your ob^t servant Saml Tredwell A William Simmons Esq^r a Acct^t of the Dep. of War Philadelphia