[188] Capt D. G. Mitchell Accountants Office Wethersfield Sept 7. 1796. Connecticut Sir I Rec.^d your letter of the 1^st Instant enclosing your Subsistence Account for August 1796, which together with your pay for said period amount to Fifty six D.^{rs 74}/100 You will receive the above from John Chester Esq^r Sup.^r Connecticut giving him duplicate receipts as usual. I am &c Wm Simmons Act. John Chester Esq^r Accountants Office Supervisor Sept 7^th 1796 Wethersfield Connecticut Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of fifty six Dollars ⁷⁴/100 which you will please to pay to Capt D. G. Mitchell of the Corps of Art.^y being for his pay & Sub.^ce for August 1796 & take his duplicate receipts therefor. I am Sir &c Wm Simmons Mr Ja^s Van Ingen Accountants Office Albany Sept 7^th 1796 Sir Therewith send you a post Note for the sum of Five hundred twenty three Dollars and fifty eight Cents, being the amount of your account for the Storage of the Stores which I will thank you to inform me of the Receipt of it. I am &c Wm Simmons M^r John Bryant Accountants Office Springfield Sept 8^th 1796 Massachusetts Sir James Melvin late a [undecipherable: probable reading "Matross"] in Col. [undecipherable: probable reading "Crane's"] Reg.^t of Artillery, has long since render'd a Claim