Isaac Craig Esq^r Pittsburg Accountants Office Oct^r 14^th 1796 Sir I received your letter of the 7^th Inst. and have now to inform you that a warrant has issued for the sum you conceived would answer the demands of the Troops for June & July 1796, which sum {2600 Dolls} will be remitted to you by S. Lewis Clerk War Office, by this days post, to whom you will forward your duplicate receipts, holding yourself accountable for the due application thereof; and proceed to make the payments with all convenient speed. When I informed you of having accepted Capt. Wade's draft on account of his pay, I did not intend that it should act as a precedent for advances of that nature. The draft of Lt. Polhemus will be accordingly suspended until he arrives in this City, not feeling myself warranted in making advances without knowing the state of an Officers accounts. If you make advances of this nature they must be at your own risk, as no payments will be made here without a certainty of the Officers having the money due & which cannot be ascertained until his arrival here; as he may receive money on his way to this place, without your knowledge. I am &c. W^m Simmons Acct. M^r George Claghorne Const^r Frigate at Boston Accountants Office Oct^r 17^th 1796 Sir Rec^d your Letter of the 10^th inst. with a Statement of your account for Compensation for September 1796 amounting to One hundred sixty six Dollars 67/100; which sum you will receive from Jonathan Jackson Esq^r Supervisor at Boston on giving him duplicate receipts for the same. I am &c. W^m Simmons Acct. Jonathan Jackson Esq^r Sup^r Boston Massachusetts Accountants Office Oct^r 17^th 1796 Sir You will receive from the Treasurer of the United States the sum of One hundred sixty six Dollars 67/100; which you will please to pay to M^r George Claghorne Constructor of the Frigate building at Boston, being for his Compensation from 1^st to 30^th September 1796 inclusive; and take his duplicate receipts for the same. I am &c. W^m Simmons Acct.