Lieut James Triplett Fort Norfolk, near Norfolk Virginia Accountants Office Dec. 21^st 1796 Sir I rec'd your letter of the 7^th inst enclosing the receipts of the men under your command for Sept & Oct 1796 amounting (with your own pay for same period) to Fifty two Dollars & [undecipherable] which sum together with the Twelve Dollars for bounty premium for inlisting John Alexander will be passed to your credit on the Books of this Office. — The four Dollars you have paid to Alexander exclusive of the above sum is also passed to your Credit & applied to a sum of eight Dollars which remain in your hands for the pay of your men to the 30^th April 1796, leaving a Balance due the United States on that head of four dollars. I am &c W^m Simmons Acct John Kilty Esq^r Supt — Baltimore Accountants Office Dec^r 22 1796 Sir I rec'd your Letter of the 20^th Inst enclosing Lieut Joseph Guimpe's ched for Seventy one Dollars, which sum will be passed to your Credit on the Books of this Office. I am &c W^m Simmons Acct James Ead Esq^r Collector — Wilmington North Carolina Accountants Office Dec^r 22 1796 Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of forty nine dollars & thirty three Cents which you will please to pay the Serjeant Philite Williams of the Corps of Artillerists & Engineers, and the men under his command stationed at Fort Johnston, being for their Pay to the 30^th Nov. 1796, and take their receipts for the same agreeably to the enclosed Receipt Roll, which as soon as