at this Office charging pay as Matrofs and Turner while station 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 Acc^t James Triplett Cadet Accountants Office     Norfolk Sept^r 8^th 1796 Sir I received your Letter of the 31^st ulto enclosing you 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 Acc^t Edward Carrington Esq^r Accountants Office     Sup^r Richmond Sept^r 8^th 1796         Virginia Sir 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