Pittsburgh May 10^th 179[3?] Sir I Herewith enclose you the Reciepts for the payment of my Company for the months of November and December 179[2] which you will please to pass to the Credit of my Acc^t — [strikethrough: INLME] Being informed by Captain Porter that my name was Among those of the Deranged Officers who Received six months pay and Subsistance I take the liberty of Requesting you should this be the Case, to pay the ballance after Deducting the Money I Received on account when at philadelphia to M^r Ormsby who possesses my power of Attorney to Receive the same — The additional expences incurred in Consequence of my being Deranged so great a Distance from my place of Residence (No Carolina) I think sufficient to Authorise my Claim claim against the United States as the money Appropriated is expressly for the purpose of Defraying the expences of the Derangee to their homes— all which I have been at in a measure Vastly exceeding the Money Allowed for that purpose — [undecipherable] with [undecipherable] you M^r [undecipherable]Simmons Most Obd^t & Humble Serv^t [undecipherable] Captain 4^th Regiment [Verso, rotated:] [undecipherable] Cap^t Rec^d Oct 20^th [undecipherable] July 10^th 179[undecipherable] Bird, [undecipherable] Cap^t. 4^th Sub[undecipherable] [undecipherable] 179[undecipherable]