The letter to Lt. William Wilson spans both pages. Transcribing that as the primary document. Lieut. W^m Wilson Governors Island New York Accountants Office Aug.^t 3^d 179[6] Sir I received your letter of the 1^st Instant enclosing muster & Pay Rolls for the months of July 1796. The Pay Roll has been examined, and after deducting William Walker & John Finness's Pay (you having no recruiting Instructions) amount to one hundred and twelve dollars, which sum you will receive from Nicholas Fish Esq^r Supervisor New York, for which you will give him duplicate receipts to be accountable for the disbursement thereof. I am &c. In absence of The Accountant Peter Hagner Princ.^l Elk