[Addressed to: M^r W. W. Simmons / Ace^t Officer / Philadelphia] [free] [Cincinnati] [Administrative notations, upper right: undecipherable] Cincinnati 30^th August 1797 Sir, Your address of the 13^th June I received a few days since; and am Somewhat Surprised that you have not found [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [the] [undecipherable] Nitres, as [undecipherable] has been in the Army since the Year [undecipherable] as Sargent Major to the the 8. Regiment [undecipherable] has always been mustered in the Staff Rolls, and has left this place the 22^d. [undecipherable] Major [undecipherable] to the Southard and must therefore beg you will reexamine the Muster Rolls; Major Swan being at Michelamanac, prevents my forwarding a receipt agreeable to your request I shall by the earliest Opportunity furnish you with one; being a dence and [undecipherable] tomorrow to Fort [undecipherable] to join my Company there leave it out of my power to render you that satisfaction at Present, relative the affairs I could wish I remain Sir your most Ob^t Serv^t [undecipherable] Lieut 3. U. S. R. M^r W. W. Simmons Ace^t Officer —