War Department Accountants Office Feb^y 11. 1793 Sir, The bearer Doct John T. Carmichael is charged with the conveyance of the sum of Forty eight thousand two hundred and one Dollars, being the amount of my estimate for the Pay of the Troops on the Establishment of the United States for the months of October November & Decem^r 1792, remitted agreeable to the Schedule at foot, for which you will be taken in duplicate receipts & send me immediately on the arrival of the money — I had previously on your letter of 31 Oct^r last advanced to the order of B^rigd Andrews thirty Dolls D^r McClary thirty Dols & thirty to D^r Strong, intended & opposed to them pay for the month of Oct^r last — I had great assurance from M^r Smith to induce me to make payment but [undecipherable] Captⁿ M^cBellnghton be [undecipherable] two M^rs pay, which upon [undecipherable] has presented many & some difficulties attending [undecipherable] to accept, owing to those difficulties attending this & a transaction — Caldshanding D. W. the Troops Pittsburg