[Docket, rotated upper right margin: Capt [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] / [undecipherable: probable reading "1798"] / [undecipherable: probable reading "Answer, refer to War from"] / Spt. [undecipherable] Pay Master [undecipherable] Army / [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Compt. Army / A.A. [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Army / [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Army / 16 S [undecipherable] n [undecipherable]] William Simmons Esquire Accountant War Office Philadelphia West point December 12. 98 Sir I recieved your letter of the 14 of September in season and recieved the sum of one hundred & fifty Dollars fr Mr Jackson supervisor of Massachusitts. I Should have answerd yours before this had it ben in my power sickness the cause. I have long in expectation of my accounts with the public being settled before this. & what the reason can be is not a little mysterious to me. my demands are just similar amounts have ben paid without difficulty and why I am to be kept from my pay and subsistence must be unaccountable to every body I am Sir your most Obedient J Ingersoll Capt [undecipherable] M^r W^m. Simmons Acc^t