[267] Lieut Andrew Marschalk Ellis's Island, near N.Y. Accountants Office September 5^th 1797 Sir I received your letter of the 4^th Inst enclosing receipts for bounty paid to your Recruits agreeably to the enclosed which will with those forwarded before be fully examinations on settlement of your Recruiting Acco. I am &c W^m Simmons acct Nicholas Fish Esq^r Sup^t New York Accountants Office September 5^th 1797 Sir The Treasurer of the United States will pay you the sum of Three hundred sixty dollars and forty [undecipherable] being for the pay and subsistence of Captain Frederick [undecipherable] the pay, subsistence and forage of Samuel Osborne Sur[geon's] mate and the pay of the Non commissioned Officers [and] Privates under the command of Cap^t Frederick [undecipherable] tioned at Governors Island for the month of August which sum you will please pay to the said Cap^t [undecipherable] his duplicate receipts to be accountable for the due app[lication] thereof. I am &c W^m Simmons acct