[227] M^r Edmund H. Quincy Portsmouth, New Hampshire Accountants Office Oct 12^th 1796 Sir I received your letter of the 3 Inst enclosing your account, and have transmitted your Salary for the Quarter ending 30 Sept 1796 amounting to 187 ⁵⁰/₁₀₀ D^d to Joshua Wentworth Esq^r Supervisor of New Hampshire on the receipt of which you will please to sign duplicate Receipts I am &c W^m Simmons Acc^t Joshua Wentworth Supervisor, Portsmouth New Hampshire Accountants Office Oct^r 12^th 1796 Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of One hundred eighty seven Dollars & fifty Cents which you will please to pay to Edmund H. Quincy being for his Salary as Clerk of the Navy yard at Portsmouth, New Hampshire from 1^st July to 30 Sept 1796 inclusive, and take his duplicate receipts for the same I am &c W^m Simmons Acc^t Nicholas Fish Esq^r Supervisor of New York Accountants Office Oct 13^th 1796 Sir Since meeting with you yesterday, I have found all the receipts that were wanted except your own for Dollars 277 ^{[undecipherable]}/₁₀₀ which you will be pleased to forward as soon as possible, so as to enable me to close your account on the Books of this Office I am &c W^m Simmons Acc^t Jonathan Jackson Esq^r Supervisor Massachusetts Accountants Office Oct 14^th 1796 Sir I rec^d your letter of the 7 Inst enclosing Major Thomas Hunts rec^t for — 500 Dollars Capt Sam^l Nicholsons — 335 ^{[undecipherable]}/₁₀₀ Amounting to Dollars — 835 ^{[undecipherable]}/₁₀₀ which sum will be credited to your credit on the Books of this Office. I am &c W^m Simmons Acc^t