[227] M^r Edmund H. Quincy                                                                Accountants Office Portsmouth, New Hampshire                                                       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^rs 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                                                                                      Accountants Office Supervisor, Portsmouth                                                                                 Oct^r 12^th 1796 New Hampshire 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 --- Nichola Fish Esq^r                                                                                                  Accountants Office Supervisor of New York                                                                                   Oct 13^th 1796 Sir Since writing to you yesterday, I have found all the receipts that were wanted except your own for Dollars 377 ⁵⁰/₁₀₀ 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                                                                                            Accountants Office Supervisor                                                                                                              Oct 14^th 1796 Massachusetts Sir I rec^d your letter of the 7 Inst enclosing Major Thomas Hunts rec^t for — 500 Dollars Capt Sam^l Nicholsons — 335 ²⁵/₁₀₀ Amounting to Dollars — 835 ²⁵/₁₀₀ which sum will be credited to your credit on the Books of this Office. I am &c W^m Simmons Acc^t