amounting to One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy five Dollars 7^ts - which sum will be entered to your credit on the Books of this Office. — I am Sir 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 Sargeant Philip Williams & the men under his Command stationed at Fort John being for their pay from the 1^st of February to the 26^th 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 credit. 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