twenty three Dollars, which you will please pay to George Ely Esq at West Point being for the pay of a Detachment of the 1^st Legion stationed at that post for the Month of March 1796 for Sum he will sign Duplicate Receipts to be accountable, for the application thereof I am &c William Simmons George Fleming Esq^r Department of War West Point Accountants Office, New York May 3^d 1794— Sir You will receive from Nicholas Bay [undecipherable: probable reading] Esq^r of New York the Sum of twenty three Dollars for the pay of a Detachment of the 1^st Sub Legion stationed at West Point for the Month of March 1796 for which Sum you will sign Duplicate Receipts & be accountable for the due application thereof — I am &c William Simmons Nathaniel Gorham Esq^r Department of War Capt Boston Accountants Office May 4^th 1796 Sir I received your letter of the 20^th Ult^o enclosing the following Receipts Viz^t Capt Geo: Ingersoll · · · · · · 500 Capt Sam^l Nicholson - - - - 334.20 Capt Geo: Coffinner - - - - · 500 1334.20 amounting to thirteen hundred, thirty four Dollars & Twenty Cents which Sum will be entered to your Credit on the Books of this Office I am &c William Simmons