[Address panel: Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r / Philadelphia; postal marking: BOSTON; received stamp: Received / State / Nov. 2[undecipherable] / R.P.O. 4018[undecipherable]; upper right endorsement: undecipherable] Boston July 5^th 1800 [Salutation undecipherable] Yours of 2^d Ulto came duly to hand at the same time [undecipherable] a letter from M^r. & Sam^d. Rhodes covering Bills [undecipherable: probable reading "of Lading"] for One Hundred & twenty heavy [undecipherable: probable reading "Barrels of"] Flour — The Vessel has not yet arrived I have made inquiry of M^r. Blake concerning the note of Col: Sargent — I find [that] it is dated the 26^th Apl. 1796 for 500 [undecipherable] payable on 1^st Jany 1799. with interest from the date. [As] it now stands thus — Principale . . . $500.— Int.^t to the 26^th June 1800 being 4 Years. & 2 months . . . $ 125 Total . . . 625.— M^r. Blake is very anxious to have it paid and cou'd I have done it consistently [without] injury to myself I should have taken it up— You will please to write me on the subject of [undecipherable] to all [undecipherable] and advise [undecipherable] yours sincerely [undecipherable] Benjamin Hodgdon [Jr?]