Now I have all images. Let me compile the full transcription from the legible pages. [Docket: Caleb Swan / rec'd 10 feby / ans'd 1 same day / Due 18] Detroit December 18^th 1796 Sir, [undecipherable] Carlton arrived here last [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] letter dated the 4 Nov[embe]r 1796 [enclosing?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] prepayments up to the [same?] [undecipherable] and also of [the?] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] Swan for paying the Army up to 31 October 1796. [which?] has [not?] yet arrived here — The said money wherever it comes into my hands [undecipherable] then most agreeably be distributed to the Troops, as soon as [undecipherable] Roles are presented to me for the purpose, and the [necessary?] [undecipherable] and formalities prescribed by law can take place. It is an extraordinary Circumstance that great Complaints should This year again have been made at [our?] Office, by Officers and Soldiers on account of Arrearages of pay due to them — Money has been [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in the hands of the Paymasters of the different Corps, for the express purpose of discharging all arrears [underline: due to all] discharges and men in 1796, as must eventually appear by receipts [undecipherable] [undecipherable] The Corps of Artillery, whose Paymaster was ordered away [undecipherable] is [undecipherable] only in [undecipherable] case, and sent to Detroit. On his return in [undecipherable] to [Greenville?] he [undecipherable] sick, and remained so until the latter end of October, when he again [undecipherable] at Head Quarters at Detroit. And [undecipherable] Officers [undecipherable] could complain [undecipherable] [undecipherable] as [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to know it could not be [undecipherable] account of themselves for it has commonly been the case that when going on [undecipherable] [undecipherable] they have been paid up to the beginning of the month in which they [left?] Head Quarters. I am therefore of Opinion that the complaints are unfounded, as far as this [relates?] to Officers or Soldiers who have been in Philadelphia in 1796. [Had?] such Complaints been made on behalf of those on duty in this Country, they would have been more plausible because it is known that the best [undecipherable] for the Army has been from the Treasury immediately, was a nominal months pay [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Philadelphia on the 25 day of November 1795. [undecipherable] charge of [undecipherable] [undecipherable], and was delivered [undecipherable] to me by War [undecipherable] on the 26 [undecipherable] January following. It is also known that since that time the Army has depended for pay subsistence and forage on the negotiation of my bills in this Country Country: Am I not therefore to consider myself as implicated in the complaints made at Philadelphia? Or shall I [have?] [any?] implication in the communication that may be made to Congress on the subject? If I am [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] let [undecipherable] known in season, that I may submit [there?] to your Office an Opinion Statement in detail, of the progress of my several Negotiations, and a certain [undecipherable] which have intervened to retard, and in some measure to defeat their Operation. This information I think I may claim as a right, [undecipherable] the events I [undecipherable] [undecipherable] flatter me [undecipherable] that I may claim it from you, on the score of our fair [undecipherable] [undecipherable] My vouchers for payment since July last are [undecipherable] reason to forward for there is no means of sending them [undecipherable] by the [undecipherable] through the woods via Sandusky; And as no messenger has yet [undecipherable] from that route, it remains uncertain as to its practicability. [undecipherable] as we are ascertained that they can [go?] safe, they shall be forwarded. Captain John Wade has received Pay and Forage here [in?] this Country up to the 30 April 1796 and subsistence up to the [3?] [June?] [undecipherable]. He is charged and accountable for 226 dollars [undecipherable] money received on the [7?] January [1]796 from the effects of the late Captain [Rice?] who [undecipherable] at Fort Wayne about a year ago. [undecipherable] also [undecipherable] 47 dollars [undecipherable] money received of me on the [8^th?] [undecipherable], [1]796. [undecipherable] Devin received [undecipherable] pay [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] up to [undecipherable] of December 1795 before he left [undecipherable] last Spring: [undecipherable] enclosed to you a sketch of his debts that appear [undecipherable] with him, [and?] the [Schedule?] of the Account of [undecipherable] Office [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] my Certificate relative to [undecipherable: probable reading "Britt"] relinquishment of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I am with respect [undecipherable] Your Indebted Servant [signature] [undecipherable] [Simmons?] Esq^r Accountant &c. --- [Docket: Lieut Diven / 406] Lieut William Devin To the United States D^r 1791. April 25. To Cash received of [undecipherable] T. Patterson for recruiting ...... 10. @ May 10. " ...... ditto .......... ditto on account ........ 40. June [4] " ......... ditto ............ ditto for recruiting ..... 20. " 23. ........... ditto .......... ditto. 1 mos pay of 20 men ...... 50. _____ 120. 1792 April 24. " ............. ditto Joseph Howell for recruiting ...... 250. V @ May 17. " .......... ditto ......... ditto ........ ditto ....... 200. V 1795. " .......... ditto Cap. James Wells dec[ease]d ditto ....... 100. V _____ 550. Oct[obe]r 20. ........... ditto Caleb Swan ................. ditto ........ 500. V 1796 June 14. .......... ditto ......... ditto ...... paid his order in favor of General Wilkinson for balance of his recruiting amount of 1795 & 1796 .... 22. V _____ 522. V D^rs ... 1,192. C^r By vouchers delivered to C. Swan on the 17^th March 1796, and by him forwarded to the accountant of the department of war ..... 522. unaccounted for ..... D^rs 670. I called on Mr Devin by letter of 21 January 1793, for a Statement of his accounts, and vouchers for monies received by him previous to that date but he declined a settlement, while he remained with the army. Detroit 18 December 1796. C. Swan --- [Docket: Capt. [undecipherable] Britt / Dec 18 / 407] Pay office Detroit December 18, 1796. I certify that Daniel Britt captain in the first Regiment and late paymaster to the first [undecipherable]-legion in the service of the united States has relinquished thirty dollars of his pay monthly, from and after the first day of March 1797 to be credited in his account, on the books of the department of war, until a balance of nine hundred and fifty eight dollars and twenty six cents (found due to the United States on settlement of his accounts) is fully accounted for; and do engage that said sum so relinquished shall be deducted from the monthly pay rolls to be passed in this office, for services after said period. Caleb Swan Paymaster of the Troops of the united States [undecipherable] Esq^r accountant to the department of war