John Chester Esq^r Supervisor Weathersfield Connecticut Accountants Office March 6^th 1797 Sir I have received your letter enclosing Captⁿ Edward Millis Rect for One hundred & twenty eight dollars¹⁰⁰/₁₀₀ which sum will be entered to your Credit on the Books of this Office. Sam^l &c. W^m Simmons Acct Absolom Baird Esq^r Sir Accountants Office March 7^th 1797 You stand charged on the Books of this Office with the sum of 2948⁰⁰/₁₀₀ Dollars for Pay of the Scouts of Washington County which sum you are held accountable for the due application thereof. I have now to request that you will forward the Vouchers to exhonerate you from this charge, or refund any balance in your hands to the Treasurer of the United States. Sam^l &c. W^m Simmons Acct Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r Superintendant of Military Stores Accountants Office March 8^th 1797 Sir I wrote to you on the 27^th January last relative to a sum of money received by Capt John Beth of John Wilkins' D^r M.G. for the Indian Department and therein pointed out agreeably to directions from the Comptroller of the Treasury the mode that was to be pursued in placing the money to the debit of the proper account — to which I have received no answer — as the proper Entries are now to be made in the Books of this Office I have to request that you will comply with the instructions therein contained — Sam^l &c. W^m Simmons Acct Captⁿ Henry De Butts N^o 55 N^o Second Street Accountants Office March 8^th 1797 Sir I have to request that you will refund to the Treasurer of the United States such sum or sums of money as you received in consequence of Bills drawn by you on the Secretary of War on account of the Department of War and which Bills stand to the Debit of C. Swan P.M. on the Books of this Office — a statement of the Bills drawn is requested of you and a Warrant will then Issue from this Department in favor of the Treasurer for the proper amount which will be entered to the Credit of said C. Swan — Sam^l &c. W^m Simmons Acct [a duplicate of the above sent Capt De Butts 15^th March 1797] John Chester Esq^r Super^t Connecticut Accountants Office March 9^th 1797 Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of One hundred thirty eight dollars &¹⁰⁰/₁₀₀ which sum you will please to pay to Capt Edward Miller at Middletown, being for the pay of himself, Lieutenant Daniel Bepell and the Recruits under his command for February 1797