[Serg^t Philips Williams Fort Johnstone North Carolina] Department of War Accountants Office September 20^th 1797 Sir I received your letter of the 2^d Inst enclosing Muster and Pay Rolls of yourself and the Men under your command for the months of July and August 1797 stationed at Fort Johnstone amounting to fifty six dollars which sum has as usual been remitted to James Read Esq^r Collector at Wilmington who will disburse the same agreeably to a Receipt Roll forwarded to him for the purpose. I am &c. W^m Simmons Acct^s