Accountants Office October 20^th 1792 Sir I have recd your letter of 13^th Inst & agreeable to your request I have by Melanothon Smith Esq^r transmitted the sum of Four Hundred & Twenty Nine Dollars & 16^c. the amount of your pay role, also Fifty four dollars being the pay of Serg Levi Hunk to his 1^st Inst. — You will also receive from M^r Smith One Hundred & Ninety eight dollars which you will deliver to M^r George Fleming for the Pay of the detachment of Kittaws Stationed at West Point, you will receipt to M^r Smith for all this Money separately for each sum. & take the and give M^r Fleming receipt for his Money — If it is inconvenient for you in the course of this quarter of the year to come forward for the settlement of your account, you will forward your accounts and vouchers by post by the middle of December inorder to be entered before the balancing of my books — You will probably be the Secretary of War in New York, who will no doubt make such arrangement as the State of your accounting may require — I am Sir Your Obd^t fend Joseph Howell [Your communications will be under cover to the Secr of War Addressed to —] Cap^t Bezaleel Howe May 18^th 1799⁷⁰