Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r Accountant's Office Philadelphia February 5^th 1801 Sir In settlement of the accounts of Capt [undecipherable] there on report of [undecipherable] at New Port [undecipherable] his [undecipherable] received a credit on the Books of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] two pounds hard, amounting 72 3/— for [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] on 23 of [undecipherable] Collector or mayor thereof to have been advanced at the public works at New Port R.I. on the 20 day of 1799 & Aug 4, 1803 &c for which you will be pleased to make the necessary entries on the Books of your Office. Sam^l [undecipherable] Joseph Williams February [undecipherable]^th 1801 [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Sir On examining your account of expenditures between October & 21 Dec^r 1800 on account of the stores at Springfield Ma. it is found that you have paid for Packing & Transportation of Clothing the following Sums &c To John Warren for beginning of Clothing [undecipherable] [undecipherable] 40 [undecipherable] Dan [undecipherable] d° [undecipherable] [undecipherable] 2. 7 John [undecipherable] d° for freight [undecipherable] as in draft — 101 — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Knight [undecipherable] for Nailing Clothing [undecipherable] — 122 — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — 124 2100 [undecipherable] D^rs 22 I have therefore to require you that before this [undecipherable] can be admitted to your credit it will be necessary for you to say by what authority they were made & which if [undecipherable] may the [undecipherable] as early as possible to enable me to effect settlement of your accounts — Sam^l [undecipherable]