to forward United States Bank Notes than any other. I expect they will answer the purpose equally with those of Albany or New York. I request that you will pay the greatest attention in doing this Business void of Errors; — and that you will as often as an opportunity offers communicate with this Office on the Subject of the Pay of your detachment. I am &c W^m Simmons Acc^t Israel Chapin Esq^r Accountants Office Canandaigua Nov^r 30^th 1796 Sir The enclosed dispatches for Capt James Bruff at Niagara, being of great importance (they containing a considerable sum of money for the Pay of the Troops under his command) and dispatch in forwarding them highly requisite: — I have to request that you will immediately on receipt hereof, forward them By confidential person, as Express, to their place of destination. The expences of the Express will be paid by Capt Bruff your particular attention to the Object is requested. I am &c W^m Simmons Acc^t Lieut Nanning J. Visscher Accountants Office Nov^r 30^th 1796 Sir I rec^d your letter of the [undecipherable] Inst accompanied by Pay of Muster Rolls for Sep^t & Oct^r 1796. You will now receive from Samuel Lewis Clk of the War Office the sum of Sixteen hundred Dollars, which has been deemed a sufficient sum to complete the Pay of your detachment, & that of L^t Bowan's in full for the present year — To your Pay Roll for October amounting to 347 Dollars, 680 Dollars has been added on an Estimate for two months Pay thereof — so as