Geo: Balfour Sur^g Mat^e Pa. Sub^t Accountants Office Stationed at Presqu'isle Sept 5^th 1796 Sir! This moment rec^d your letter of the 15^th July last stating the circumstances relative to your having rec^d pay at Presqu'isle for a part of the same period that you relinquished it for & was paid here to M^r Balfour: — I am satisfied that your receiving it was owing to some misunderstanding not by design or a wish to receive your pay twice for the same period, it being an error it now only rests to have it rectified which can be done by stopping the payment here for a like [undecipherable] and then to be paid at this Office again as usual — this was proposed to your Wife on receiving a letter from her on the [undecipherable] July ist. The Extract of my letter to M^r Craig under [undecipherable] of 28 June 1796 make it necessary to deduct him on the [undecipherable] of your pay in consequence of his claiming credit for pay [undecipherable] to Captain Bissell in whose pay Roll your pay [was] included. — I therefore thought it unnecessary to address you or Captain Bissell on the Subject as it was M^r Craig's Duty to stop any other payments — some time sup[undecipherable] it to be an error that would explain itself in time & [undecipherable] might be rectified in future payments from this Office. Sam^t C. W^m Simmon[s] Captain Edward a Miller Accountants Office Middle town Sept 6^th [undecipherable] Connecticut Sir! I rec^d your letter of the 31^st ulto & its accompaniments — The pay Roll for August 1796 had been examined and amounts to one hundred & four Dollars which sum you will receive from John Chester Esq^r Sup^r Connecticut giving him duplicate Roll as usual — The money adm[undecipherable] for apportioning, W^m Seward will be passed to the Credit of your recruiting account on the Books of this office — The arrangements is not yet printed — you stand 6^th Captain in [the] Regiment on the new Arrangement: Sam^t C. W^m [undecipherable] [Page 181 YN801]