Caleb Swan Esq^r Department of War Pay Master to the Troops US. Accountants Office Detroit February 10^th 1797 Sir Herewith you will receive Letters for the following Officers, Viz^t Col^o J F Hamtramck, Major J Shaylor, Captains, Z Pike, W Faulkner, I Guion I Bowyer Lieutenants A Gray, P Pope, & Robert Purdy who stand charged on the Books of this Office with several sums of Money paid them a long time since, for the expen aditure thereof, I have not received any account or Voucher and being anxious to close all accounts of long standing, I having to request you will as speedily as possible, — transmit them agreeable to their Superscriptions, — I am &c. W^m Simmons Act^t Captⁿ Rich^d Blackburn Accountants Office Fort Norfolk, Virginia February 15^th 1797 Sir Your Letter of the 3^d Inst. has ena= bled me to make out the Payroll of your Detachment to 31^st January 1797 amounting to One thousand and fifty six dollars ²²/100, which sum you will receive from Edward Carrington Esq^r Supervisor of Virginia, on giving him duplicate Receipts for the due application thereof. You will also receive from him the further sum of One hundred & seven dollars ⁴⁵/100 being the amount of your Pay and subsistence for November & December 1796 for which you will likewise give him duplicate Receipts and