[232] Jonathan Jackson Esq^r Supervisor, Boston Accountants Office Oct 7^th 1796 Sir You will receive from the Treasurer of the United States the sum of One hundred eighty seven Dollars & ⁷⁰/₁₀₀ being for the Salary &c of Caleb Gibbs Clerk of the Navy yard at Boston from 1^st July to 30^th September 1796 inclusive, which sum you will please to pay to him and take duplicate receipts for the same I am &c W^m Simmons Acc^t Lieu^t Nehemiah Tinman Temp^y Q. M. West Point Accountants Office Oct 7^th 1796 Sir Agreeably to what I wrote you on the 6^th Inst the Statement and Vouchers of George Horning for the payment to the Corps for the month of May has been under examination, and has been found right which will be accordingly entered to his credit and your Account charged with the Balance refunded to you being 115 Dollars I am &c W^m Simmons Acc^t M^r Thomas Holt New London Virginia Accountants Office Oct 8^th 1796 Sir The Secretary of War has thought proper to make you the following Advances, to wit: D^o 556 ⁷⁰/₁₀₀ on ¾ of your Estimate for May 1796 1142 ⁷²/₁₀₀ on ¾ of — do — for Aug — D^o 1698 ⁹²/₁₀₀ making in the whole Sixteen hundred ninety eight Dollars & ⁹²/₁₀₀ which sum I have paid, agreeably to your Order, to Samuel Hodgdon Dep^t of for which you are held accountable for the due application thereof. I am &c W^m Simmons Acc^t [Page 217 YNB01]