[Address panel:] To Caleb Swan Dep^ty. April 7. 1793 War Department Accountants Office April 7. 1793 Sir The bearer Major John Mills has in charge to be delivered to you the sum of Fourteen thousand three hundred [undecipherable: probable reading Ninety] one Dollars being for the [strikethrough: undecipherable] pay of the troops on the Ohio & its communication for the month of [undecipherable: probable reading March] last agreeably to the inclosed estimate, — Your not having receipted for the whole amount of the warrant issued in favor of Doct. Joseph Strong has necessarily suspended the debit, at the same or of any part thereof to your account & of course the sum [undecipherable] [strikethrough: transmitted] is also in the same situation, in order to accomodate his business I have transmitted by Major Mills an indemnification for to you for the sum of $20[undecipherable] being the deficiency & have to request that you will sign & deliver to him triplicate rec^ts for that am^t to be given in favor of D^r Strong & that they may correspond with the warrant — I am &c [signed] [undecipherable: probable reading Howell] Caleb Swan Dep^ty.