[Cancelled] Capt. Edw.^a D Turner— Boston Department of War Accountants Office February 25^th 1796 Sir I received your Letter of the 6^th Inst. enclosing your account of Pay and Subsistence, the amount agreeable to your Statement — [undecipherable] requested might be paid M^r John W Blake which would have been done — had an error been discovered in the calculation of the Subsistence have therefore paid him the Two hundred Dollars agreeably the proviso in your letter. and the Balance being 71 Dollars 97/100 agreeably to the within copy of the Statement, will be remitte[d] you through Nathaniel Gorham Esq Supervisor for which p[lease] give your duplicate Receipts — I inclose you your Recei[pt] forwarded by M^r Blake and request you will obtain the Contractors Certificate that you drew no Rations for [the] period charged on your account. — I am Sir y.^r William Simmons