[416] Lieu^t Horatio, R. Dayton. Governors Island. Sir Department of War Accountants Office February 3^d 1796 Your letter of the 1^st Instant enclosing your muster and Pay Roll for the Month of January 1796 I have received the pay Roll has been examined amounting to 107 Dollars which sum you will receive from Nicholas Fish Esq^r and for which you are accountable for the disbursement thereof agreeably to the enclosed receipt Rolls: all the information I can give you respecting John Minker is that he appears by the Muster Roll of Cap^t Blackburn Company to have inlisted the 22^d December 1797 and deserted May 3^d 1795. I am Sir &c — William Simmons Alexan^r Segriltz Cap^t Engineer. Baltimore. Department of War Accountants Office February 3^d 1795. Sir Pursuant to Major S. J. U. Rivardi's letter to me concerning your pay — I have to request that you State your Account for Compensation as Assistant Engineer up to the 31^st December 1795 and transmit the same to this Office. I also wish to be informed in what manner you would think proper to receive the amount — would it not be proper to transmit it to the Supervisor at Baltimore — I am Sir &c William Simmons