[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^nd 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 Johnston 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 Nicholas Fish Esquire Super^r New York Sir Accountants Office September 21^st 1797 The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of two hundred dollars which you will be pleased to pay to Captain Griffith J. Mackee, taking the necessary rect holding him accountable for the due application of the same it being for the Recruiting Service. I am &c. William Simmons Acct^s