Middletown March 31^st 1797 Sir I have Recieved your letter of the 9^th of Mar[ch] enclosed is a Receipt Roll for the Month of [Fe]b[ruary] 1797, amounting to one Hundred thirty Dollars and thirteen Cents, the two deserters have not sign[ed] the Roll. I also forward you a Muster and pay Roll of the men, for the Month of March 1797, the pay Roll amounting to seventy six Dollars an[d] thirteen Cents I am Sir your Humble Serv^t Edward Miller Cap^t [Edward Miller — the 7^th of April Lou N 8^th [undecipherable] Mar. 31] W^m Simmons Esq^r Ac^ct Department of War