[William Symmons Esq^r / Accountant in the War Department / Philadelphia] [Postal stamp: BOSTON] [Postal marking: 40] [Endorsement, written vertically on address side: This Aug 1 1795 / [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] / Nath. Gilman —] [S2] Boston Aug^t 1 1795 Yours of the 26 Ult° relative to the 1450 Dollars remitted to me in July 94 I have Reed and I observe to you Sir that I have never paid the whole of it to the Persons who were to receive it from — The Fortifications I am informed did not go on in the manner purposed. M. Davis for 100. & M. Baker for 200. have had the sums directed for them. but I did not send him Receipts as posting the others would call [undecipherable] many of those and the above together. Altho' the Accountants Letter of [undecipherable] 4^th of [undecipherable] and — I answered on the 16^th of that Month — for the seven hundred Dollars in my hands perhaps it would be [undecipherable] to make some new [undecipherable] — I am Sir your Hum[undecipherable] Nath° Gilman M^r Symmes Esq^r 1794 July 14 906 [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] 915 Nathaniel [undecipherable] Frederick 250 + 945 Joseph Hiller (Att'd [undecipherable]) 250 + delivered 909 Sam^t R. Carey do. 1 [undecipherable] 250 + 952 Annie Davis [undecipherable] 300 + delivered D^r 1450 +