[Endorsement: Capt Swan [undecipherable] received 26 October Answered Declined to rec[eive?] of 31 Oct[ober] [undecipherable]] [Address: William Simmons Esq^r Accountant War Department Philadelphia] [Notations: D[undecipherable]... Not in Acco[unt?] C. Anderson] Greeneville September 13. 1795 Since penning my letter of this day, it has occured to me that M^r Howes has drawn from you 64 dollars, which [undecipherable] from Captain Welchers Pay on his amount, this sum. [The?] [undecipherable] M^r Howes owed to me, and he ought not to have taken this money out of your hands— The nature of the Case is this — in January 1793 he drew from [the?] [undecipherable] [31,814?] dollars for the army, from which he kept back 201 dollars for advances made by him to sundry soldiers wives & in Philadelphia — and demanded a receipt of me in full for the 31,914 dollars, and desired [to?] [undecipherable] the 201 dollars from those men to [whom?] he had made the advances — [Could?] not conveniently enter into so vague a piece of business, I did however collect all [undecipherable] it for the [sum?] — from some time after this M^r Howes wrote to me, and urged that I must [send?] my receipt in full for the 31.814 dollars, otherwise he [found?] [undecipherable] to get Credit at the Treasury for any part of it — and sent me an indemnification, in case I should not be able to collect the remaining 63 [dollars?] after this again — I collected 64 dollars for him from Cap^t Welcher, for which [undecipherable] me accountable — [Kept?] to [write?] the P.M. as soon as I returned this 64 dollars among my Credits — It seems that M^r Howes came forward and drew it from you — thus you see — Charged with the whole sum of 31,814 dollars, and also with [sixty?] [four?] dollars, [forty?] three of which I have in fact never [Received.?] — Instead of drawing this 64 dollars from you, M^r Howes, ought to have, taken his instrument of indemnification only out of my hands, and then the account between us would have been [settled?] of itself within one dollar — The fact is, that M^r Howes, if any body [could vouch?] it, is the man, and [with?] me — [just?] advances, as he made — were irregular, and [should?] not [in] any shape, [reflect?] the cash [account?] [undecipherable] on me — and I have [undecipherable] upon by the pretended representatives of soldiers — for several of the names for whom he made advances, were never yet to be found on the Muster Rolls of the Army — Lest [of death?] [undecipherable] a [transfer?] might not be easily understood, I have therefore thought proper to make this statement [apart?] to you — [signature] It Gives me great satisfaction to inform you that since Making up my papers and abstract, which I [send?] with [here?]; I have [after?] this time again ascertained the balance of Cash in my hands, and [find?] that my accounts will balance within a few dollars. I am very respectfully Sir Your ob^t Servant [undecipherable: G. Mau?] [W. S.? Esq?] [undecipherable]