M^r Claude [F?] Poucheresse Department of War Assistant Storekeeper Accountants Office, Springfield May 18^th 1794 — Sir You will receive from Nath^l Gorham — Supervisor the sum of One hundred and twenty Dollars being the amount of your Account for pay from the 1^st Jan^y. to the 30^th April 1794 for which sum you will sign duplicate receipts I am &c W^m Simmons Cap^t James Ivory Department of War Portsmouth Accountants Office, New Hampshire May 18 1794 — Sir I have received your letter of the 9^th Inst enclosing your Account for pay as Cap^t of the frigate building at Portsmouth amounting to One thousand three hundred — Thirty Nine Dollars & twenty Cents which sum you will receive from Joshua Wentworth Esq^r Supervisor and for which please sign duplicate receipts I am &c W^m Simmons Joshua Wentworth Esq^r Department of War Supervisor Accountants Office Portsmouth May 18 1794 New Hampshire Sir The Treasurer of the United States will honor it — You the sum of One thousand three hundred thirty nine Dollars and twenty Cents which you will please pay to James Ivory at Portsmouth being for his pay and subsistence as Cap^t of the Frigate building at that place from the 1^st of May 1795 to the 30^th April 1796 for which sum he will sign duplicate receipts I am &c W^m Simmons —