Cap^t Frederick Frye Accountants Office commanding at Governors Island July 5^th 1797 New York Sir I received your letter of the 1^st Instan with the different Rolls therein mentioned. The receipt roll for Pay of yoursel Detachment for May 1797 is examined, and the am Three hundred and forty three Dollars will be carr your Credit on the Books of this Office. After deducting five Dollars overpaid in the 2^d Pay Roll of your Detachment for June 179[7] the amount of Subsistence of your & M^r Osborn's Waiters[,] they must receive in kind from the Contractors, you receive the amount, being Three hundred and seven Dollars and eighty three Cents from Nicholas Fish on giving him the necessary receipts holding yours accountable. You will receive herewith some