[Cancelled] Capt Edw^a D Turner. Department of War Boston Sir Accountants Office February 25^th 1796 I received your letter of the 6^th Inst. enclosing your account of Pay and Subsistence, the amot which agreeably to your Statement [undecipherable: you 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 written copy of the Statement, will be remitted you through Nathaniel Gorham Esq Supervisor for which [undecipherable] give your duplicate Receipts — I inclose you your Recei[undecipherable] forwarded by M^r Blake and request you will obtain the Contractors Certificate that you drew no Rations for [undecipherable] period charged on your account. — I am Sir &c— William Simmons