Legion River 18 April 1793 — Sir Your letter of the 6^th inst. together with the estimate of the pay and forage of the officers of the United States for January 1793 & two [undecipherable] of charges against the army, And a copy of instructions of 29^th December 1791 at the county lieutenants of [undecipherable: probable reading "Washington"] & Westmoreland and Allegheny in Pennsylvania have been duly received on the 14^th inst. I am happy that the pay of the troops is put out so punctually. I now forward by the post my warrants N. [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] will pay Rodes and [undecipherable] Collins [undecipherable] to which the sums are annexed, and for which amounts you will please to send me your acknowledgements by the next post — I also shall [undecipherable] to you [undecipherable] made and thirty nine abstracts of those advances and one more made in Philadelphia to D. Mann and [undecipherable] — Daniel Britt left Fort Washington in the [undecipherable] of 1791 after making a partial payment to the [undecipherable] from there, on account of that he went to Philadelphia with General [undecipherable], and as I have always understood, then received the [undecipherable] of [his] Regiment as far as I am informed he carried the moneys drawn on the river with him from this place on the 17 January 1793. Now then can I be called upon for a settlement of 1791 which I never made, and which is probably at this moment unfinished — Those who have claimed for advancement pay must wait — as it is not possible to retain information from the advanced camp and posts with that facility which seems to have been anticipated. Expecting the [undecipherable] which you require of me, from whence the returns of [undecipherable] the dead men of the [undecipherable] Regiment, a station; it is not yet a final [undecipherable] because the abstracts are not closed: there is to the amount of 3 or 4 hundred dollars yet due on those abstracts, to men scattered through this country now in actual service who have not yet been paid for 1791. I therefore cannot [undecipherable] them to you, and when ever you do receive them the books will exhibit but a few errors, and [undecipherable] as are in my opinion unaccountable. I am Sir yr obt Svt Caleb Swan Pay master [undecipherable] [undecipherable] United States Mr. Howell and a [undecipherable]