Caleb Swan Esq^r Detroit Accountants Office 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^m Simmons Acct S^t Col.^o Stephen Rochefontaine West Point New York Accountants Office January 21^st 1797 Sir I received your letter of the 14^th Ins^t and agreeably to your request & the order of J. Lynch his Decembers 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 Capt Gamble's Estate on the settlement with them. If from the documents they conceive themselves authorized to admit the Accounts, the money will be stopped for the use of the Soldiers — there would be no difficulty of the Due Bills were produced. But as it is I fear there is not a sufficient proof of the Debt. I am &c W^m Simmons Acct. Capt Richard S. Blackburn Fort Norfolk near Norfolk Virginia Accountants Office January 20.^th 1797 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