Joshua Wentworth Esq^. Department of War Super^v. Portsmouth N.H. Accountants Office Sir April 5^th 1797 I received your letter of the 25 ult. covering Edmund H. Quincy Receipts for One hundred eighty seven Dollars and fifty Cents which sum will be passed to the Cred[it] of your account on the Books of this Office — I am &c Wm Simmons Acct Caleb Gibbs, Clerk navy^d Yard Accountants Office Boston Sir April 8^th 1797 I received your letter of the 28^th ult. with enclosing your account for compensation, amounting to One hundred eighty seven dollars &⁵⁰/100, which sum you will receive from Jonathan Jackson Esq^. Supervisor, Boston, on giving him duplicate receipts as usual. I am &c. Wm Simmons Acct Jonathan Jackson Esq^. Accountants Off[ice] Supervisor Boston April 5^th 1797 Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of One hundred. eighty seven dollars &⁵⁰/100 which you will please to pay to Caleb Gibbs, Clerk of the navy yard, Boston; being for his Compensation from 1 January to 31 March 1797, and take his duplicate Receipts therefor. I am &c. Wm Simmons Acct. L^t. Joseph Guimpe Accountants Office Whitestonepoint, Baltimore April 5^th 1797 Sir I received from the Secretary of War the receipt roll of the men under your command for January 1797 and Muster & pay polls for February & March. The Receipt roll amounting to two hundred and fifty one dollars, has been examined and will be entered to your credit accordingly: — the pay rolls for February and March have also been examined and, after deducting therefrom the pay of Cap^t. Staats Morris, to be settled at this Office, Andrew Galen Serg^t. & John Wilson private, who have been already paid here. W^m. Forbes private deserted W^m. Kersley " John Sullivan, } confined for desertion Ja^s. Hutchinson, } amount to four hundred & eighty eight dollars which you will receive from John Kilty Esq^. Supervisor of Maryland on giving him duplicate receipts as usual. [P.S. You will in future be pleased to transmit your Muster, Pay & Receipt rolls to this office, and not to the Secretary of War.] I am &c. Wm Simmons Acct. John Kilty Esq^. Accountants Office Supervisor Maryland April 5^th 1797 Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of Four hundred & eighty eight dollars which you will please to pay to L^t. Joseph Guimpe at Whitestonepoint being for the pay of himself and the men under his command for February & March 1797, and take his duplicate receipts for the [same] —