W^m E Atkins Superintendent of Fortifications Wilmington Department of War, Accountants Office April 6, 1796 Sir You will receive from James Read Collector of the Customs at Wilmington the sum of Seven hundred and ten Dollars for your salary, from 1^st June 1794 to 30 Nov^r 1795 for which sum you will please give him duplicate receipts — I am S^r William Simmons James Read, Esq^r Collector of Customs Wilmington South Carolina Department of War Accountants Office April 6, 1796 — Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the Sum of Seven hundred and ten Dollars which you will please pay to W^m E. Atkins at Wilmington for Superintending the Fortifications at Cape Fear from 1^st June 1794 to the 30 Nov^r 1795 for which Sum he will give duplicate receipts one of which to be transmitted to this office. I am &c William Simmons Nehemiah Freeman Comp^y 2^d to the Corps of A &. E. West point. Department of War Accountants Office April 6, 1796 Sir The pay rolls of the Corps of A &. E have been examined and I find due thereon, two thousand nine Hundred and forty Dollars and eighty seven Cents after deducting the pay of John B. Wright, and of James Massey Corporals who have been paid at this Office what from your note account of Nicholas Fish Supervisor New York