[undecipherable: probable reading South West Point], December 10^th 1797 Sir I transmit you the Rolls held for the month of September 1797, by which you will observe that payments have been made thereto to the amount of Four Thousand, Three Hundred and [undecipherable] Dollars and Forty one Cents, and I enclose to you also an account Current between the United States and the Tennessee Paymaster by which there appears to in my hands a balance of [undecipherable] Hundred and Seventy Five Dollars and [undecipherable] Cents. I have the honor to be with respect Sir Your very humble Servant [undecipherable] Freeman [undecipherable] Paymaster at W. Ten[nessee] William Simmons Esq^r [Administrative notation on cover, rotated: [undecipherable] Received / fro[m] the [undecipherable] / am: & hence pay]