M^r Edmund H. Quincy Accountants Office Clerk to the Navy Yard February 14^th 1797 Portsmouth N. Hampshire Sir I received your letter of the 31^st Ultimo enclosing your Account Current and have transmitted your Salary for the quarter ending 31^st December 1796 to Joshua Wentworth, Supervisor New Hampshire, on the receipts of which you will please give him your duplicate Receipts for the same. I am &c. Wm Simmons Acct Joshua Wentworth Esq^r Accountants Office Supervisor Portsmouth February 14^th 1797 New Hampshire Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of One hundred & Eighty Seven ^50/100 Dollars being for the Salary of Edmund H. Quincy as Clerk to the Navy Yard at Portsmouth from 1^st Oct^o to 31^st December 1796 which sum you will please pay him taking duplicate Receipts for the same. I am &c. Wm Simmons Acct Nicholas Fish Esq^r Accountants Office Supervisor N. York February 14^th 1797 Sir I received your letter of the 9^th inclosing your Account Current and the following Receipts Viz^t Nehemiah Freeman Lieut. for. Dol^t 944.50 George Fleming M.S.K. ——— 100.47 Ditto ——.—. ,, 42.13 Frea^t Sprig — D.M.S.K. ——— 90.— Fred^t Frye — Captain ——— 407.68 Amounting to One thousand five hundred eighty four dollars and Seventy eight Cents — } 1584.78 which sum will be entered to your Credit on the Books of this Office. Your Account of Commissions in receiving and paying monies from this Department in the Quarter ending 31^st December 1796 has been examined and amounts to Fifty eight dollars and ⁵⁰/₁₀₀ which sum you will receive from the Treasurer of the United States as usual. I am &c. Wm Simmons Acct M^r Jacob Slough Department of War Late Cap^t. Service U.S. Accountants Office Lancaster February 14^th 1797 Sir Annexed you have Duplicate of a Letter wrote you the 17^th October last, & which have not received any reply, I have to repeat my solicitations, that you will take immediate measures for settling your accounts, as the time allowed you for that purpose is long since expired and unless this is immediately complied with I shall be obliged to report the situation of your accounts to the proper Officer who is by law obliged to pursue the mode pointed out for that purpose, I hope therefore you will prevent the disagreeable necessity—