Claude p Pourchereose Springfield Massachusetts Department of War Accountants Office May 4. 1796 Sir On the 7 of January, last the Treasurer of the United States Remitted to Nathan Gorham to be paid to you the Sum of One hundred, fifty eight Dollars and seventy five Cents for your Pay to the 31 Dec.^r 1795 which on application to him you will receive — You will please state your Account up to the 1^st of this Month, and transmit it to this Office when the Amount thereof will be [strikethrough: Remitted] forwarded to you I am &c William Simmons --- Nath.^l Gorham Esq.^r Sup.^t Boston Massachusetts Department of War Accountants Office May 4. 1796 Sir On the 7 of Jan.^y 1796 the Treasurer of the United States Remitted you the sum of one hundred sixty eight Dollars & seventy five Cents being the Amount of Warrant N.^o 903 — Issued from this Office in favor of Claude P. Pourchereose being for his pay as an Assistant Storekeeper at Springfield which Sum he informs by a letter Dated the 26 Ult.^o that he has not received. I have therefore to Request of you to have [undecipherable: probable reading "Reconveyed"] that Sum that you will apply it accordingly I am &c William Simmons --- Lieu.^t Amais M. Geddes Governors Island New York Department of War Accountants Office 4 May 1796 Sir I have received your Letter of the 1^st Inst.^t enclosing your receipt Note for the Month of March 1796 which has been examined amounting to One hundred and two Dollars — which will be passed to your Credit on the Books of this Office — I am &c William Simmons