Thomas Farley. Department of War Late Surgeons Mate — Accountants Office May 13^th 1797 Sir You stand charged on the Books of this Officers with One hundred twenty nine Dollars and fifty Cents being amount received by you on the 10^th Sept. 1792 on account of Three Months Pay, Subsistence and Forage, and for which you have not rendered any account to close the same. I have therefore to request you will immediately transmit such papers to this Office as will fully authorise my Balancing your Account. In expectation of hearing from you in a few Posts. I am &c.
     W^m Simmons
     Acct— --- Nicholas Fish Esq^r. Accountants Office Supervisor ✓ May 23^d 1797 New York Sir I received your letter of the 22^nd Inst. enclosing the following receipts Viz.
  Cap^t. Fred^k. Fryes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dol. 352. 27
  Forman Cheesemans . . . —    200 —.
  James Rands . . . —         52 —.
  Nehemiah Freemans . . . —    1271 —.
                  D4 — 1875. 27 amounting to One Thousand Eight hundred and Seventy five Dollars ²⁷/₁₀₀ which sum will be entered to your credit on the Books of this Office.— I am &c.
     W^m Simmons
     Acct— --- James Read Esq^r. ✓ Accountants Office Collector May 24^th 1797 Wilmington N.C. Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of Ninety six dollars which you will please to pay to Sergeant Philip Williams & the men under his Command stationed at Fort John[son] being for their pay from the 1^st of February to the 30^th Ap[ril] 1797 inclusely, and take their receipts for the same agreeably to the enclosed receipt Roll which as soon as receipted you will be pleased to transmit to this Office in Order that the amount may be placed to your cred[it] I am Sir &c.
     W^m Simmons
     Acct— --- Sergeant Philip Williams Accountants Office Fort Johnson N.C. ✓ May 24^th 1797 Sir I received your letter of the 1^st Inst. enclosing the Muster and Pay Rolls of yourself and the men under your Command for the Months of February,