Isaac Craig Esq^r Accountant's Office Pittsburg. Dec^r 16^th 1796 Sir I rec^d your letter of the 2^d inst enclosing a Pay Roll of Capt Crawford's Company & on account of L^t Col^d Thomas Butler's for Pay & Forage, which have been examined & the amount passed to your credit. On the subject of the pay of the Scouts on the upper Posts of the Ohio, I have conversed with the Sec^y of War, & on account of the press of Business at present it cannot be attended to by this days post. By the next however you may expect a remittance. — I would in the mean time observe, that it is a long time since you have forwarded a Statement of your Payments — you will prepare to forward one which will include all the payments in the present year