Serjeant Philip Williams                      Accountant's Office Fort Johnston                                         Dec. 26.^th 1796 North Carolina Sir I rec.^d your Letter of the 3 ^d instant enclosing the Muster & Pay Rolls of yourself & men under your command, stationed at Fort Johnston, for the months of October & November 1796, which have been examined, & amount to Forty nine Dollars $³³/100, which sum you will receive from James Read Esq^r Collector at Wilmington, on giving him rects agreeably to my Instructions to him. I am &c. W.^m Simmons Acct