[you some time since.] Sam^l H^e W^m Simmons Acc^t Lieut Col^o Stephen Rochefontaine Accountants Office West Point — New York Nov^r 25^th 1796 Sir I rec^d your letters of the 4^th & 23^d Inst. Lieut Robinsons pay will be paid to your order for the month of November at the end thereof. — Capt Thompson having forwarded his Recruiting Account and Vouchers by this days Mail, they will be placed under examination, and as early as possible the men will receive the Bounty which may be found due them. I have informed him that it will be necessary to have his Receipt Rolls for Payments to his men forwarded by the first post, to have them passed to his Credit in one general Settlement. — As regards the five Companies ordered on command they will be paid all arrears due to them on their arrival at their different Garrisons, as soon as a Muster takes place. Sam^l H^e W^m Simmons Acc^t Lieut. Jonathan Robson Accountants Office New York Nov^r 25^th 1796 Sir I have rec^d yours of the 22^d Inst. and have paid to Capt. M^cRea the sum of Fifty two Dollars, being the amount of two months pay in Advance, say for the months of Dec^r 1796, and Jan^y 1797, for which you will give duplicate receipts one of which to be transmitted to this Office. — I find that you have not yet sent forward your Rest. Rolls for the Money paid to the Men under your command, the whole of which stands to your debit on the books of this Office; you are therefore requested to send them on to this Office without delay, that the amount paid by you may be passed to your