Lieut James Triplett Accountants Office Fort Norfolk, near Norfolk Dec^r 21^st 1796 Virginia 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 [undecipherable] Dollars for bounty premium for enlisting 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 Acc^t John Kilty Esq^r Accountants Office Sup^r — Baltimore Dec^r 22 1796 Sir I rec^d your letter of the 20^th inst enclosing Lieut Joseph [undecipherable: Guimple's] Rect for Seventy one Dollars, which sum will be passed to your Credit on the Books of this Office. I am &c W^m Simmons Acc^t James [undecipherable: Ead] Esq^r Accountants Office Collector — Wilmington Dec^r 22 1796 North Carolina 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 [undecipherable: Philistis] 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 agreeable to the enclosed Receipt Roll, which as soon as