twenty three Dollars, which you will please pay to George Esq^r 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 a application thereof I am &c William Simmons George Fleming Esq^r Department of War West Point Accountants Office, New York May 3^d 1796— Sir You will receive from Nicholas Fish Esq^r of New York the Sum of twenty three Dollars for the pay 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 Re & 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 [undecipherable] enclosing the following Receipts Viz^t Capt Geo: Ingersole . . . . . . 500 Capt Sam Nicholson - - - - - 334.20 Capt Geo: Coffener - - - - - . 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