and take his duplicate Receipts for the due application there W^m Simmons Acct. Cap^t Edward Miller Accountants Office: Middletown Connecticutte March 7^th 1797 Sir I received your letter of the 2^d Instant enclosing the Receipt Roll of yourself. Lieutenant Daniel Bissell & and the Recruits under your Command for January 1797 amounting to 128⁰⁰/100 dollars, will be placed to your credit on the Books of this Office and your Muster and Pay Roll for February 1797 which on examination amounts to One hundred and thirty eight dollars and ⁰⁰/100 which sum you will receive from John Chester Esq^r Supervisor at Weathersfield on giving him duplicate Receipts therefore. Gen^l Putnams letter Sam^e will be forwarded agreeably W^m Simmons to your request. Acct Lieut^t Nehemiah Freeman Accountants Office Temporary P.M. West Point March 9^th 1797 Sir. I have passed the Pay Rolls for Dec^r and January, without a reference to the particular situation of the 4^th Battalion. I find M^r Dransey made up as Adjutant without a single man of that Battallion being at West Point. I can therefore not allow the charge untill it be sanctioned by proper Authority you will accordingly suspend making any payments to him on that head. Sam^e W^m Simmons Acct.