of Gambles Estate, & the result communicated to you. Jan 8^th W.^m Simmons Acct. C.P. Burcheefee Assistant Store keeper Springfield Accountants Office January 26^th 1797 Sir I received your letter of the 20^th instant enclosing your Account for Compensation from 1^st October 1796 to 1^st February 1797. As you are to receive your Salary in quarterly Payments, I have made up your pay only to the 31^st December 1796, which amounts to Ninety dollars, and will be remitted to you in post Notes by Samuel Lewis Clerk of the War Office. Jan[undecipherable] W.^m Simmons Acct. Dwight Foster Esq.^r Chairman Committee of Claims Accountants Office Jan 26^th 1797 Dear Sir Agreeably to the request contained in your Note to me of the 23^d Ins.^t I have examined the Petition of William Matthews, and was not a little surprised at the large demand he claims against the United States, particularly when it is in a great measure supported by so many respectable names as rigress in behalf of his Petition. — his Claims are of four descriptions — Viz.^t 1^st a Charge for his pay as a Clerk to the Commissary of Purchases in Georgia from the 1^st March 1777 to 1^st Jan.^y 1778. — Doll.^s 400.— 2^d — for his pay as Com.^r of Musters from 1^st Jan.^y 78 to 3^d Sept 82 — 2600 3^d — for 2 years full pay in lieu of half pay for life (commonly called Commutation) —— 2700.— ———— [undecipherable].70 ———— 4^th — for Interest calculated up to the 3^d Oct.^r 1792 — 199.60 ———— 10903.70 Deducting Principal & Interest credited to him Amounting to — 199.60 ———— Balance claimed by him of — Dollars 10709.10