of your having produced to him admissible Vouchers for expenditure of two thousand dollars being amount of War N^o 41 received by S Hodgdon and transmitted by him to yo of your receipt 24^th January 1775 for giving provision to the S of the United States, enclosed you will receive a copy of his answer by which it appears, no settlement has ever taken place with him, you will therefore be held accountable at Office till you produce either suitable Vouchers for the a sum. Sam^to W^m Simmons Acct^r Samuel Nicholson, Capt } D W Accountants Office of the Frigate building at Boston September 20^th, 1797 Sir I received your letter of the 15 Inst covering account of pay and subsistence to this date amounting to fi Hundred thirty five Dollars and forty Cents which sum will receive as usual from Jonathan Jackson Esq^r Sup^r at Boston on giving him the necessary receipts. Sam^to W^m Simmons Acct^r Jonathan Jackson Esq^r } D W Accountants Office Supervisor Boston September 20^th, 1797 Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit to the sum of Three Hundred thirty five Dollars and forty which which you will please to pay to Samuel Nicholso of the Frigate building at Boston taking the necessary rec for the same, being for his pay and subsistence from the [Page 309 YO051]