Nehemiah Freeman Accountants Office Temporary Paymaster April 17^th 1797 West Point New York Sir I received your letter of the 11^th Inst. with its enclosures. The Pay Roll for March together with the Subsistence % due sundry Officers, has been examined, and after deducting therefrom 15% dollars (as per list herewith) amounts to Nine hundred & eighty seven dollars %o; which sum you will receive from Nicholas Fish Esq^r Supervisor New York, on giving him duplicate receipts for the due application thereof. I am Sir &c. W^m Simmons Acct^t M^r Edmund H Quincy Accountants Office Superintendant of the Navy Yard April 17^th 1797 Portsmouth New Hampshire Sir I received your letter of the 4^th instant enclosing your % for Compensation as Superintendant of the Navy Yard at Portsmouth New Hampshire from the 1^st January to the 31^st March 1797 amounting to one hundred Dollars; which sum you will receive from Joshua Wentworth Esq^r Supervisor at Portsmouth on giving him duplicate receipts for the same. I am &c. W^m Simmons Acct^t