pay you, John Parker & W^m Johnstone the sum of One hundred & thirty five Dollars being for your & their pay from 1^st January to 30 September 1796 & for which each of you will give them Receipts accordingly. Enclosed you have Blank Muster [/Pay?] Rolls: you will therefore transmit a Muster, which you must make oath to, before a Magistrate) and Pay Roll to this Office every two months, and the Money will be remitted to James Read Esq^r who will pay you the same! I am &c W^m Simmons Acc^t James Read Esq^r Collector Wilmington Accountants Office North Carolina Oct^r 19^th 1796 Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of One hundred & thirty five Dollars, which you will please to pay to Sergt Philip Williams, John Parker & William Johnstone of the Corps of Artillerists & Engineers Stationed at Fort Johnston, being for their pay from 1^st Jan^y to 30 Sept 1796, and take their Receipts for the same agreeably to the enclosed Receipt Roll, which, as soon as received, you will be pleased to transmit to this Office in order that the amount thereof may be passed to your Credit; I am induced to give you this trouble of paying the men individually, they having no Officer with them & not knowing any other person in your district with whom I can intrust this business. I am &c W^m Simmons Acc^t Edw^d Covington Esq^r Supt. Richmond – Virginia Accountants Office Sir Oct 20^th 1796 I rec^d your letter of the 14^th inst enclosing Capt Alex^r Gibson's receipt for D^rs 506 ⁶⁴/₁₀₀ Cadet James Triplett 29 ¹³/₁₀₀ amounting to—— Dollars – 535 ⁷⁷/₁₀₀ which sums will be entered to your Credit on the Books of this Office I am &c W^m Simmons Acc^t