[95 Lieu^t Andrew Marschalks Ellis Islands near New York Sir Department of War Accountants Office September 20^th 1797 I received your letter of the 18^th Instant enclosing duplicate receipts for bounty paid for your Recruiting which will be filed with those already received to be applied on settlement of your Recruiting account The error pointed out by you in making the pay of John Dole a Carpenter in your detachment corrected on Muster & Pay Rolls by adding two [undecipherable] Dollars the you will therefore be pleased to take his receipt accordingly You will receive agreeably to your request a further advance of Three Hundred Dollars for the Recruiting Service. I am &c. W^m Simmons Acct^s James Head Esq^r Collector Wilmington N.C. Sir Department of War Accountants Office September 20^th 1797 The Treasurer of the United States will pay you the sum of Fifty six dollars which you will please pay to Philip Williams and the Men under his command stationed at Fort Johnston being for their pay for July & August 1797 and their receipts for the same, agreeably to the enclosed pay roll, which being completed you will please transmit to this office that your account may be credited accordingly. I am &c. W^m Simmons Acct^s