[undecipherable: first page noted as illegible by digitization project] [Docket notation, rotated, upper right:] [undecipherable] S. [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] [Left margin notation:] Dep^t of War Accountant^s Off[ice] / [undecipherable] Sir, I have [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] hath [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] Two Hundred [undecipherable] here [undecipherable] paid [undecipherable] Pay due to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Dean [undecipherable] the non com[missioned] Officers [undecipherable] [undecipherable] at the rendezvous of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to be accounted for [undecipherable] — The [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Dollars [undecipherable] [undecipherable] The Doctor[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Orders for [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — Therefore [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Sir [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Esq^r ([undecipherable]) [Top left annotations:] [undecipherable] Dep^t of War Accountants Off[ice] March 5. [undecipherable] [The undecipherable will undecipherable] the following sums for the purposes mention'd — Two hundred eighty one Dollars 94 Cents pay due f^a 1^st [undecipherable: probable reading "Lt."] Eaton, En^s Ben[j.] [undecipherable: probable reading "Rand"] the non com[missioned] Officers & privates of [undecipherable] at at the rendezvous of Springfield from 1 [undecipherable] 31^st Decem. 1794 to be paid [undecipherable] Eaton when he is to be accountable for the same — Two hundred twenty five dollars to be paid to Cap^t Sam^a Nicholson of the [undecipherable] building in Boston for his pay from 1 [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — I inclose a list of monies to [undecipherable] in 1794 for which you have not [undecipherable] requesting that you would in every instance [undecipherable] Acknowledgements of the receipt of monies from a[undecipherable] [undecipherable] With great respect &c I am your Obed^t Serv^t Joseph Howell[undecipherable] [undecipherable] Esq^r (Boston)