Nehemiah Freeman, Esq. Department of War R. P. W. West Point Accountants Office

   New York                                   February 20th 1796
                   Sir
                          I have just time to acknowledge the receipt of your 

letter of the 15 instant together with its accompaniments– you have enclosed a list of the retained Bounty due the men enlisted by Capt Richard S. Blackburn which you may pay out of any unappropriated Monies in your hands-

                      I am sir (indecipherable)
                          William Simmons