Lieut James Triplett Accountants Office Fort Norfolk, near Norfolk Dec 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^r 1796 amounting (with your own pay for same period) to Fifty two Dollars & ⁷⁵/₁₀₀. which sum, together with the Twelve ^s 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 Acc^t John Kilty Esq^r Accountants Office Sup^r — Baltimore Dec^r 22^d 1796 Sir I rec^d your letter of the 20^th Inst enclosing Lieut Joseph Guimpe'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 Ired Esq^r Accountants Office Collector — Wilmington Dec^r 22^d 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 Philitis 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^r 1796. and take their receipts for the same agreeably to the enclosed Receipt Roll, which as soon as