Caleb Swan Esq^r Accountant's Office Detroit January 20^th 1797 Sir On the other side you have duplicate of my last letter to you. I now enclose you an Extract taken from the Warrant Book from the 20^th Dec^r to this day for your government. I am &c W. Simmons Acct. L^t Col^o Stephen Rochefontaine Accountant's Office West Point January 21^st 1797 New York Sir I received your letter of the 16^th Ins^t and agreeably to your request & the order of Col. Lynch, his Drummer, Pay & Forage will be forwarded to Nicholas Fish with the Money for the Pay of the Corps for that Month, as soon as Appropriations are made by Congress. The Accounts of the Soldiers will be examined and laid before the Administrators of Cap^t Gamble's Estate on the Settlement with them. If from the documents they convince themselves authorized to admit the Accounts, the money will be stopped for the use of the Soldiers — There would be no difficulty of the Size Bills were produced. But as it is I fear there is not a sufficient proof of the Debt. I am &c W. Simmons Acct. Cap^t Richard S. Blackburn Accountant's Office Fort Norfolk near Norfolk January 20^th 1797 Virginia Sir I received from the Secretary of War the Muster and Pay Roll of your Detachment to 31^st Dec^r 1796. On examination, I find, those men that marched from West Point, have pay