Lieu^t Junior Gridley Department of War Accountants Office April 2— 179[undecipherable] Sir I received your Letter of 25 Ult. & to inform you that your pay must be included on the pay roll with the detachment under your Command — you must have received Instructions from Col. Rochefontaine to muster Men Monthly, but lest you may be in want of pay and Rolls for that purpose I enclose you herewith some, your men are mustered you are to make out a pay Roll & forward them to this office, when received they will be act without delay. I am &c William Simmons Cap^t Donald G. Mitchel West Point Department of War Accountants Office April 2^d 179[undecipherable] Sir I have received your Letters of the and have to inform you that previous to my acting on the Instruments you forwarded It will be necessary that you send an a recruiting Account (a form of which you no doubt have) and forward it together with the Receipts for Bounty paid to this Office when received and examined M^r Freeman will receive Instructions to pay the same. I am &c William Simmons Cap^t Staats Morris West point Department of War Accountants Office April 2— 179[undecipherable] Sir I received your Letter of the 25 Ult.