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Exchange for 1000$

Sir

After ten days sight of this my first bill of exchange, second of like tenors and date unpaid, pay Gideon Dennison or orders One thousand dollars it being for value received of him in specie, and is to be appropriated to the payment of the Nichajah expedition, or the Defensive protection estimate, for which sum I hold my self accountable upon advice of the same.

I am Sir Your Humb Servant David Henley Agt War

Knoxville State of Tennessee the 2 January 1799

The honorable James McHenry Secretary of War Philadelphia

[in pencil] presented Feb. 8: 1799