Caleb Swan, Esquire D. of War Accountants Office Pay Master: — June 17^th 1795. Sir By the bearer hereof Tucker M^r Woodson you will receive the sum of forty three thousand three hundred and eight Dollars — being for the Pay and Forage of the Troops at Head Quarters, Forts Knox, Steuben &c for the months of March April and May 1795 for which sum you will be held accountable and will please give the necessary receipts to be forwarded to this Office — A Schedule of Notes, shewing the Marks of each Bundle, and the contents you have herewith. Your letter of the 7^th March to the late Accountant was handed to me by M^r Lee together with the [undecipherable] of the Kentucky Volunteers and your Warrant for 52,000 Dollars paid to him. Those accounts have been examined, and a further deduction has taken place from those men who sold their horses and those who had no horses on the campaign which fixes their Pay at fifty Cents p day after they became dismounted. These accounts will shortly be adjusted and the Balance found due will be passed to M^r Luce. The price of the Subsistence rations beyond Fort Washington has not yet been determined on — I Prepared an Extract of your letter which relates thereto to the Secretary of the Treasury and he informs me that it will be determined on in time to give you information by the next Post which leaves this on Saturday next — at which time I hope to give you any necessary information. The Clothing which may be come due to discharged soldiers, I would advise to be accurately noted on the discharge in writing, and not in figures as the case now because bears it too much in the power of the Payper to alter it as has frequently occurd — There is now an account in the Office presented by Gen^l Hall late a Matross in the Artillery discharged at Greenville the discharge is signed by W. Burbeck and Dentin by which it appears that he has not received one year full clothing tho' he served three, and the figures appear to be altered — as this case appeared suspicious, to determine on his Pay him but for one years Clothing leaving the Residue untill information arrives. You will by this case observe how necessary it is to use the precautions above recommended. You will receive herewith an Abstract from the Warrant Book commencing the 9^th April to this day by which you will observe that Capt Bişell who has lately marched with a Detatchment for Head Quarters have been paid to 31^st May and that he has settled all his public accounts up to that day — He now has to account for 300 Dollars he received to defray the expenses of the March of his detatchment to Pittsburg for which he will deliver you the Vouchers and any balance remaining in his hands will be as usual paid to you. Lieut Peter Frothingham who also marched with a detachment has settled his accounts of Pay and Subsistence up to 31^st May, and his detachment have likewise been paid in full to that time, but he has to account with you for 200 Dollars which he received for the recruiting service — The Recruits which were to have join'd Capt Bişell at Carlisle will all be paid by him to 30 April — they would have been paid to 31^st May but no muster Rolls being in the Office I could not forward Pay further than those that day. By an Act of Congress of 2^d January last you will observe that an additional Bounty of 5 Dollars is allowed to those men who deserted after 1^st January and 5 Doll^rs to all those who inlist after that day, making the active Bounty to a Substitute 8 Dollars and to a new Recruit 11 Dollars retaining the sum of 4 dollars untill they arrive at the Regiment or Corps in which they are to serve. I have for this purpose kept an abstract of all sums so retained from the Recruits inlisted since that time the accounts of which have been settled at this Office an abstract of which you have inclosed stating the sums retained from those men who marched with Capt Bifell and Ens^l P. Frothinghams, except those who joined them at Carlisle as the accounts of the Officers who inlisted them have never come to this Office — I am at a loss to know what sums may be due to them but have requested Ens^l Martins to forward by Capt Bifell — all necessary informations concerning them — for your government. It will be necessary for you to transmit a list of the names of these men that March to Head Quarters to whom you pay the sum retained as that sum is passed to their Credit here, and will remain so untill information from the Pay Master arrives. — Your accounts are now under examination, and as I mean to persevere in having them settled, I hope ere long to inform you of considerable progress being made therein. If you can assist by giving any information to the Remarks sent you by M^r Howell, or have any additional Vouchers to forward, you will please to do it as soon as possible. The sums due for Retained Bounty you will pay out of the unappropriated monies in your hands, and transmit a list thereof as above directed. — I am Sir Y^r William Simmons