W.D. Accountants Office October 24^th 1794 Sir On the 18^th Inst. I requested Major Isaac Rearg acting as paymaster at Pittsburgh, to pay you Twenty dollars being the amount of your pay from 18^th June the date of your acceptance to 2^d October 1794. I could have wished to have conveyed this money to your hands before your arrival at that place but have not been able to accomplish it consistently with the arrangement for remitting and having money from this department. Ensign David Faris of Capt. Spencer's Comp^y Militia Camp I am Sir &c Joseph Howell W.D. Accountants Office October 24^th 1794 Sir The Treasurer is directed to remit you Two thousand dollars to be transmitted to John Durant Military Store Keeper at Springfield on account of the incidental expences of the Ordnance department for which he is to be held accountable and the further sum of Two hundred and Twenty seven dollars and 50 Cents to be paid