Joshua Wentworth Esq^r Accountants Office Supervisor Portsmouth N H April 17^th 1797 Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of One hundred Dollars; which you will please to pay to Edmund H. Quincy; being for his Compensation as Superintendant of the Navy Yard at Portsmouth New Hampshire, from 1^st January to 5^th March 1797, and take his duplicate receipts for the same. — I am Sir &c. W^m Simmons Acct Caleb Swan Esq^r Accountants Office Pay Master General April 17^th 1797 Troops United States Sir Herewith I transmit you two letters directed to Captains Joshua Barbee & John Adair, they have not yet accounted for the money paid by you in 1792, when you have read them you will be pleased to close and forward them to their respective places of abode and urge the necessity of their immediate compliance with the request therein contained as I am anxious to close all accounts of long standing. I am, &c. W^m Simmons Acct