D. of War. Accountants Office Joshua Wentworth Esq^r October 30^th 1795. Sup^t Portsmouth New Hamps^r Sir, The Treasurer of the U. will remit you the Sum of 187 Dollars and 50 Cents being for the Salary of Edmund H. Quincy Clerk of the Naval Yard, Portsmouth from the 1^st July to the 30^th Sept^r 1795 inc^e for which Sum you will please to take his Receipts. ↵ I am Sir &c. Off^m Simmons D. of War. Accountants Office Major John Cannon October 30^th 1795. Sir, You having received from this Departm on the 19^th Nov^r 1794 the Sum of 8864 Dollars & 77 Cents for the pay due the scouts called into Service for the protection of the Frontiers of North Carolina from 5^th Feb^y to 31 Aug^t 1794 and entered into Bond for the due application thereof agreeably to the Instructions received from the late Accountant. I have to inform you that the Vouchers produced by you for the Expenditures of that Sum are not agreeably to those Instructions: You having brought forward Receipts signed by a Number of persons as [undecipherable]