Albany March 3^d 1794. Sir/ I send you the Rolls for the Month of February and have been waiting with patience for the Pay of the Months of December and January last, which not coming to hand as yet, has been a great detriment to the Recruiting service, for you may well know the Pay is Low, were the Soldiers to get it Monthly, but much worse when he does not get it all, at least not one in four Months, which is the case at present. This makes the Recruiting service appear colling and I am in dread will prove of bad consequence — Sir/ I have thought it my duty to inform you, after which you may use your pleasure — If you think proper to send on the Pay I shall be thankfull and will send the Receipts from the Men by Next Post. And Sir believe me to be Your friend and Humble Servant Corn N.R. Sedam Cap^t & Sub Legion C C 8 6 5 [on the 2^d] 93. Cap^t Sedam recc^d his own pay & Subsist^e to 1 Jan^y 94 in advance. His recruits were previously paid to 1 Dec^r 93. He sent on his muster for Decem^d & Jan^y. The errors in the roll of December 93 obliged me to obtain information of his Enrol & c. Delayed the transmission of the pay although it since appears he was warranted by 31 Dol^rs 37 due in that month, but if I had been governed by his muster I should have [undecipherable] him the pay of the men he left at [Brunswick] — In March he writes for pay this; an appⁿ could not be granted until the act of appropriation passed; before this Letter arrived I had responded on the [undecipherable] Jan^y & Feb^y — I am exceedingly surprised that Cap^t Sedam should make any complaint upon whatever, for it is notorious that no officer in the Army has had more attention paid him than Cap^t Sedam — I can only attribute it to his ignorance of the necessity of an Appropriation being requisite and passed previous to Monies being sent for Pay of this Year — Mem^o of the Accountant to the Sec^y of War this 5 Ap^l 1794 [to Henry [undecipherable] Esq^r from Cap^t Sedam]