Captⁿ D.G. Mitchell Wethersfield Connecticut Sir Accountants Office Sept^r 7. 1796. 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 Acct. John Chester Esq^r Supervisor Wethersfield Connecticut Sir Accountants Office Sept^r 7^th 1796 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 A.D.E. being for his pay & Sub^s for August 1796 & take his duplicate receipts therefor. I am Sir &c. Wm Simmons Mr. Jas. Van Ingen Albany Sir Accountants Office Sept^r 7^th 1796 I herewith 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 Powder which I will thank you to inform me of the Receipt of it. I am &c W^m Simmons Mr. John Bryant Springfield Massachusetts Sir Accountants Office Sept^r 8^th 1796. James Melvin late a Matrop in Col. Cranes Regt. of Artillery, has long since rendered a Claim at this Office charging pay as Matrops and Turner while stationed at the Laboratory at Springfield in the year 1782 & 1783 under your Direction; — he now applies for a Settlement but as I have no Muster Roll or Document in this Office to check his account, will therefore thank you to inform me whether there is any thing due to him and how much, and the Circumstances why his Claim was not settled at the time he was discharged or any other information relative to his claim you may think proper. I am &c W^m Simmons Acct. James Triplett Cadet Norfolk Sir Accountants Office Sept^r 8^th 1796 I received your Letter of the 31^st ulto enclosing your the receipt Roll of yourself & men for July and pay & Muster Roll for Aug^t 1796. The Rec^t Roll has been examined amounting to Thirty Dollars which will be passed to your Credit on the Books of this Office. The Pay of yourself and men for Aug^t 1796 amounts to Twenty nine Dollars 7/100 which you will receive from Edward Carrington Sup^r Virginia giving him duplicate Rec^ts as usual & disburse the same agreeably to the enclosed Rec^t Roll. I am &c. W.^m Simmons Acct. Edward Carrington Esq^r Sup^r Richmond Virginia Sir Accountants Office Sept^r 8^th 1796 You will receive from the Treasurer of the United States the sum of Twenty nine Dollars 7/100 which you will please to pay to James Triplett Cadet being for the Pay of himself & men at Fort Norfolk for August 1796 and take his duplicate receipts for the due application thereof. I am &c. W^m Simmons