Sergeant Philip Williams Fort Johnson N.C. [✓] Accountants Office 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, March and April 1797 stationed at Fort Johnson which have been examined, and the amount Ninety six Dollars you will receive from James Read Esq^r Collector at Wilmington on giving him receipts agreeably to my instructions to him on the subject. I have to inform you that the accounts you observe to have forwarded to this Office have never came to hand. I am &c. W^m Simmons Acct^t