Our best efforts at reading this give the following result:

Received 5th Jan 1786 Two Years
Interest on the within Indent

£2.6.3   William Oneall
  2.6.3
  -------
  4.12.6

Received 5 January 1786 from the Commissioner
of the Treasury Twenty Two Pounds Three
Shillings and four Pence in Part of the
within Indent by Discount on the
Purchase of Land.

£22.3.4  William oneall

Received 6th January 1786 Three Pounds, 3 [?]
in part of the Within by Disction[?] the
purchase of 137 Acres of Land granted
John Reagan
  William oneall

[Note:  William O’Neall died on 5 November 1786, so his son Abijah signs the remaining receipts.]

Received Febr 1787 from the Com'on of
the Treasury the sum of that years
Interest on the within Indent say[?] on the
[???]
   Abijah Oneall

Received January 1797just satisfaction for the
Within [?] discount on Archer[?] [???]
   Abijah Oneall

[Margin note:]  Cancelled

[Note:  According to Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, an indent is "a certificate of indebtedness (as of interest on the public debt) issued by the federal or a state governement in the late 18th or early 19th century".]

Thanks to Jill O'Neall Ching for furnishing this treasured document.

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