amounting to One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy five Dollars 7/4 - which sum will be entered to your credit on the Books of this Office. — I am Sir W^m Simmons Acct^t James Read Eq^r Accountants Office Collector May 24^th 1797 Wilmington N.C. Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of Ninetysix 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 26^th 1797 inclusely, and take their receipts for the same — agreably 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 [undecipherable] I am Sir &c W. Simmons Acct^t 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