Jonathan Jackson Esq^r Sup^t Boston Accountants Office Dec^r 26. 1796 Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of Two hundred twenty three dollars 4⁴/₁₀₀, which sum you will please to pay to M^r James Simes, at Kingston, Massachusetts, being for his Pay & Subsistence, as Capt of the Frigate building at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, from 1^st May, to 30^th June 1796, & take his duplicate receipts therefor. You will be pleased on the rect hereof to forward the enclosed to him. I am &c W^m Simmons Acct --- Edward Carrington Esq^r Sup^t Richmond Virginia Accountants Office Dec^r 27^th 1796 Sir I rec^d your letter of the 20^th Inst enclosing Capt S. Blackburns rect for Two hundred & two Dollars 46⁴⁶/₁₀₀, which sum will be entered to your Credit on the Books of this Office. I am &c W^m Simmons Acct --- M^r Thomas Holt New London — Virginia Accountants Office Dec^r 28^th 1796 Sir The Secretary of War has advanced you the sum of one thousand ninety three Dollars 4⁴/₁₀₀, which I have paid, agreably to your Order, to Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r, and for which you are held accountable for the due application thereof. I am &c W^m Simmons Acct