will empower any person in this city to receive the Bal[ance] after deducting the amount due by you to the U[nited] States it will be paid to him and your account will accordingly be closed on the Books of this Office. — You will also please to note the place you were stationed at on the 31. October 1796 to ascertain the contract price of the rations — I am &c. W^m Simmons Acct. M^r David Ames Accountants Office Springfield. Mass^s. March 15^th 1797 Sir I received your letter of the 10^th Inst inclosing your accounts & Vouchers from 1^st November to 1^st January which will be placed under examination, and the result be communicated to you. I am &c. W^m Simmons Acct. D^r Jon^a Robeson Accountants Office Fort Johnson. S. Carolina March 16^th 1797 Sir I received your letter of the 3^d January last enclosing the Receipt Roll of the men formerly under your command at Whetstonepoint to the 30^th June 1796. amounting to 703¹⁰⁰ dollars & Braycroff & Ho.lens Receipt for 27 dollars, both which sums as well as your pay for January 1797 will be passed to your Credit on the Books of this office, leaving a Balance due the United States of 5¹⁰⁰ Dollars — The 8 dollars paid Elijah Schofield for passage from New York to Westpoint is inadmissible — I therefore return you his receipt. I am &c. W^m Simmons Acct. Isaac Craig Esq^r Accountants Office Pittsburgh March 17^th 1797 Sir Your Account Current has been examined, and the Balance found due you is Eight hundred & twenty nine Dollars ³/100 differing from your Statement 72 Dollars, the sum refundeded you by Cap^t Bissell for the Pay & Forage of L^t George Balfour for the months of March & April 1796 which you omitted to Credit/ The above Balance you will receive from Samuel Lewis Clk W.O. to whom please to forward your Receipts therefor. The pay of the Troops up to the end of February it is expected will be forwarded by an Officer shortly for your place — I am &c. W^m Simmons Acct. Lieu^t Charles Hyde Accountants Office Detroit March 17^th 1797 Sir On the settlement of an account of Cap^t Eaton you stand charged with the sum of Two hundred and Ninety seven Dollars ³/100 being part of the 746¹⁰⁰ Dol^ls of which the late accountant informed you on the 1^st April 1794 you stood charged with/and which Cap^t Eaton has declared an oath he never received from you — on a reference to a letter from you to the late Accountant of the 25^th April 1794 — you there say you have his Receipt for the whole amount. If this is the case you are requested to forward