Exchange [strikethrough: for] 2000 D^s Knoxville the 10 April 1800 Sir, After ten Days sight of this my first Bill of Exchange, second of like tenor and date unknown, pay Alexander and James Fulton or their order, two thousand dollars, it being for value received of them in Specie and is to be appropriated to the paying the regular troops under Lieut^t Colonel Butler in Tennesse for January, February & March, for which sum I hold myself accountable as per advice of the same. The honorable I am Sir James McHenry Your Hum^ble Servant Secretary War D^avid Henley Philadelphia Ag^t & [undecipherable] [Pay forwards by Courier 1/2 That Benjamⁿ Fulton] Received May 17^th 1800 of William Simmons accountant a Warrant N^o 6049. issued by the Sec^y of War for two thousand Dollars, in full for the within Bill. D^rs 2000 — for [undecipherable] [undecipherable: Jno Smith?]