M^r Caleb Gibbs                                                  Accountants Off[ice] Cl^k of the Navy[,] [at] Boston                                   October 8^th 1797 Sir I received your letter of the 3^d Inst enclosing your acc[ount] for your salary as clerk to the Navy, paid at Boston from 1 July to September 1797 inclusive amounting to One hundred eighty seven dollars & fifty cents which sum, you will receive as usual from Jonathan Jackson Esq^r Supervisor at Boston on giving him the necessary receipts for the same. I am &c. Wm Simmons Acct— M^r Stephen Hillis                                                      Accountants Office Knoxville Tennessee                                                 October 8^th 1797 Sir I duly received your letter of the 15^th ulto with its en-sures — I understand the waggons have arrived but the v[i][undecipherable] mentioned in your letter have not yet come to hand. I am &c. Wm Simmons Acc^t Cap^t Edward D. Turner                                            Accountants Office Pittsburgh                                                                    October 6^th 1797 Sir You will receive from Samuel Lewis Clerk in th[e] War Office the sum of two Hundred dollars being on account [of] the recruiting service, for which you will please forward h[im] your receipt holding yourself accountable for the due app-tion thereof. I am &c. Wm Simmons Acct.—