[Endorsement, top right corner, partially cut off: [undecipherable] 1800 / Dandridge — / No 25 June —] [Archival stamp: Received from State Dep't Nov [undecipherable] [undecipherable] 1810] [8] Samuel [undecipherable] Esq^r Philadelphia [undecipherable] this [Date and location heading obscured] Sir Please to accept my respects to your Self & family This will be handed you by Mr Chandier from [undecipherable] — he has been several years Employ'd at his trade in this town but now dismiss'd [the?] [undecipherable] as has come to my knowledge I believe he has conducted with fidelity — he has a family & this town does not afford him any kind of Employment by which he may procure a livelihood, he has [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] determined to return to Philadelphia in hopes among his former friends to find some Publick or private business as his abilities may Suit, His being a Stranger in this Country I think him an Object of compassion & wish he may Succeed in getting Employment I am respected Sir Your Obedient Servant James [undecipherable: probable reading "Byers"]