the Books of this Office. I now have to inform you that your pay Rolls have been examined and after deducting therefrom your pay to be settled in personal account, and the pay of Deserters and those absent without Leave, the balance amounting to five hundred six Dollars & sixty four Cents, will be remitted to Edward Carrington Sup^t. Richmond for which you will sign duplicate Receipts to be accountable for the due application thereof agreeably to the enclosed Receipt Roll for pay to the 30^th June 1796 inclusive Jam P. W^m Simmons ac^t Edward Carrington Esq^r Department of War Supervisor Accountants Office Virginia Aug^t 9^th 1796 Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of five hundred six Dollars & sixty Cents, being for the pay of the Recruits under the Command of Captain Alexander Gibson to the 30^th June 1796 inclusive, which sum you will please to pay him & take his receipts to be accountable for the same. Sam P. on W^m Simmons Acc^t Captain Edward Miller Accountants Office Middletown Aug^t 10 1796 Connecticut Sir I received your letter of the 3^d Ins^t together with its enclosures. I herewith return you the Muster Roll to be Sworn to, before the pay Roll can be acted on Sam^t W^m Simmons acc^t Jonathan Jackson Esq^r Accountants Office Aug^t 10 1796 Sup^t Boston Sir I received your letter of the 4^th inst. enclosing the Rec^t of [undecipherable] Clayborne for five hundred Dollars which sum will be entered to your credit in the Books of this Office. Sam^o. W^m Simmons acc^t